Archive - Architecture Weekly

Business Won't Let Me and other lies we tell to ourselves

Have you heard a surgeon say, "I won't sterilise my tools, as patient won't let me"? I didn't, but I heard, multiple times, "Business won't let us add…

Apr 28 •

PostgreSQL JSONB - Powerful Storage for Semi-Structured Data

Object-oriented or relational? Why not both? Let's look on PostgreSQL JSONB column type and how it can help you to deliver your applications faster. We…

Apr 21 •

Monolith-First - are you sure?

Pendulum swung back! Now The "modular monolith first" is the best advice. But is it? It sounds great in theory but can fall short in practice.In…

Apr 14 •

What we don't know that we don't know

This week let me share a weird thought I got after landing for a few hours in the hospital. How do we know that we know? How do we don't kno what we…

Apr 7 •

March 2025

We are no superhumans

or at least I am not. If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. We can and…

Mar 31 •

TypeScript Migrates to Go: What's Really Behind That 10x Performance Claim?

JavaScript is slow!!! You could get that from the announcement with a 10x performance increase after migrating the TypeScript compiler to Go. The real…

Mar 24 •

Whole Architecture Weekly content is free now!

💣 Boom here comes the big news! The only constant in the world is change. I made the Architecture Weekly a fully free newsletter. Yes, that also…

Mar 17 •

Practical Introduction to Event Sourcing with Emmett

Emmett is a framework that will take your applications back to the future. Learn mor on how Event Sourcing can be practical and smoother with it.The…

Mar 10 •

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So you want to break down monolith? Read that first.

My lessons learned, dos and donts from breaking down monoliths. I gathered my experience on what to do before even starting. I explained hy defining…

Mar 3 •

February 2025

How does Kafka know what was the last message it processed? Deep dive into Offset Tracking

Today we got back to our Kafka internals series. We discussed how it keeps track of processed messages. This may seem like a detail, but understanding…

Feb 24 •

Documenting Event-Driven Architecture with EventCatalog and David Boyne

If you're wondering on how to document Event-Driven Architecture, or you don't know that you should, I have something for you. We discussed with David…

Feb 17 •

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Defining Your Paranoia Level: Navigating Change Without the Overkill

We've all been there: trying to learn something new, only to find our old habits holding us back. We discussed today how our gut feelings about solving…

Feb 10 •

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