Intro So you have learned (see my prevoius posts/videos) about the pros and cons of event-driven architecture, and you are still are looking to start your journey by either incrementally strangling an existing system or using EDA for a greenfield project. In this post, I will introduce you to the concept of a broker and run you through… Read More »
Web APIs SHOULD NOT just return a boolean, string or a number/integer value in the response body for any response. Take the following. If you have an operation which for a successful (2XX) creation operation, returns just the value of the new object’s identifier in the response body, like the below examples, then you are opening yourself to… Read More »
Event-Driven VS Request-Driven Architecture, User Registration Example (Pros & Cons) In this post, I am running you through two different approaches for implementing a user registration process to share the trade-offs, the differences and the advantages and disadvantages between the two different architectural patterns. Note – This post is the written version of my YouTube Post of the… Read More »
Six reasons why you, and your company should adopt an API first approach. And why they are critical to your company’s future.??
What are events in Event-Driven Architecture? In this post I will describe the difference between commands and events.
What are the benefits of event-driven architecture. I will be doing this by explaining some of the problems with request-driven architecture and how event-driven architecture solves these problems.
During my early days as SA, developers were coming to me regarding every small design issue which the leads or the senior developers should have been able to answer easily and design. I was frustrated and annoyed because the lead and senior developers were not taking ownership and the initiative. At first, my frustration was at the developer’s… Read More »
So guys, shortly after I published my last post “10 years as a Web Developer”, a Solution Architect position came up, so I went for it and got it. Was I ready hell no! Would I ever have been ready… maybe. But I went for it because it would propel my career. So for the last two years… Read More »