Week 48, year 2021

You Can't Buy Integration - “Build versus buy” decisions are everywhere today, and rightly so. Building software is risky and expensive, and software product companies can spread that risk and expense across multiple customers. But my colleague Brandon Byars argues that the kinds of tools that are available to buy for systems integration are not products that directly solve a business problem. more… [Martin Fowler]
Scaling the Practice of Architecture, Conversationally - Like many modern software architects, Andrew Harmel-Law struggles with the need to scale architectural thinking to larger organizations while allowing teams to be as autonomous as possible. The approach he's currently using is the "Advice Process", that encourages and supports these teams to be engaged in broader architectural decision making. In this first installment, Andrew describes this advice process, later installments will dig into four supporting elements that help make it work. more… [Martin Fowler]
Architecture of Max reHIT Workout - Today I have the pleasure of announcing my new app—Max reHIT Workout—on Product Hunt. Max reHIT Workout is an exercise app that guides you through interval workouts. I won’t pitch the app here. I'll just say I’m proud of how it turned out and if you want an optimal algorithm for exercising, you might like it. I know I haven’t been writing much lately. That's because there’s been very little evolution in software system architecture. [High Scalability]
A thinking and recording tool: Decision Records - The Advice Process works when supported by four elements. Andrew describes the first of these, Decision Records, which act as a tool for thinking about and recording the decision process. more… [Martin Fowler]
Put most of your energy into building clean interfaces - Brandon points out that while we have historically drawn up our project plans and costs around the boxes—the digital products we are introducing—the lines are the hidden and often primary driver of organizational tech debt. They are the reason that things just take longer now than they used to. more… [Martin Fowler]
Event Store Cloud: Our journey to the Cloud - Event Store Cloud has been an important project for us, and we’re committed to making it better and better. As Event Store Cloud started onboarding customers for over a year now, we thought this was the perfect time to reflect on how far Event Store Cloud has come since its launch. [Event Store blog]
Event Streaming is not Event Sourcing! - I usually don’t try to fight the HackerNews or Reddit opinions. That said, I cannot deny that they’re powerful platforms. The heated rants… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]
Event Store Conversation: Hayley and Yves talk about EventStoreDB 21.10 [Event Store blog]

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