Architecture

Every engineer who has spent significant time in architecture discussions has seen the same dynamic: a proposed solution …

AI features are getting added to production systems quickly — often quickly enough that the usual architectural …

Spring’s dependency injection container is one of the most mature and capable DI frameworks available. It’s …

Security gets treated as a feature set: authentication, authorization, input validation, encryption. Implement those …

Ward Cunningham introduced the technical debt metaphor to explain to non-technical stakeholders why code needed to be …

The monolith vs microservices debate has produced more heat than light over the past decade. Both sides have …

Event-driven architecture has become fashionable, which means it’s being applied in situations where it …

The three-layer architecture — controllers, services, repositories — is how most Spring Boot tutorials present …

Every significant technical decision your team makes will be questioned later. When the original authors have left. When …

Every system that communicates over a network is a distributed system, and distributed systems fail in ways that …

The software industry has a microservices fixation. Over the last decade, “monolith” became almost a …