Yes, as more and more companies embrace Continuous Deployment, feature flags platform are becoming much more popular. I love feature flags, it’s one of the coolest and more demonstrable aspects of DevOps. With all the noise, it can be overwhelming pi...
Sometimes, when we have a hammer, everything is a nail. When we have Kubernetes, we want to deploy everything on it. Is it really worth deploying a static website on Kubernetes? Maybe. If you absolutely need Server Side Rendering (SSR) then you proba...
Security is complicated. It’s very difficult to get right. Building your own authentication system can be a bad idea. Building your own secret store can be a bad idea. Building your own encryption algorithm can be a bad idea. The list goes on. Progr...
True monoliths are difficult to change. But, difficult change is bigger than overcoming spaghetti code. Ask yourself, if you were modifying a couple of lines of code, how long would that change take to make it to production? For many organizations wi...
Yesterday, I spoke about the value of making architectural decisions to aid agility. Agility requires high deployment frequency (deployments to production per day), and low lead time (time between commit to production deploy). Today, I want to highli...
When we think of software architecture, we often think of aspects like the type (e.g. N-tier, onion, etc.), patterns, approaches (e.g. DDD), data-flow, resiliency, and scalability. What about business agility? How will you release updates to the syst...
