Code Architecture

General

• In defense of simple architectures • Dan Luu 📖
• Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach • Mark Richards and Neal Ford 📕

Diagramming Software

• Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques • Discussing his book about creating version-controlled diagrams with Mermaid • Ashley Peacock 📺
• Add more diagrams to repos? At multiple folder levels? Benefit vs risk of falling out of date?

Small vs Large Scale Architecture Patterns

• Larger Scale Software Development (and a Big Trap) • An overview of a number of simple-to-complex app architecture patterns with the overall recommendation to build even small side projects with scaling in mind • Code to the Moon 📺

Distributed systems

• 9 Software Architecture Patterns for Distributed Systems - DEV Community • Peer-to-peer, API Gateway, Pub-Sub, Request-Response, Event Sourcing, ETL, Batching, Streaming Processing, Orchestration • Soma 📖
  • Related to system design interviews + designing good-fit solutions at work

Messaging / event streaming / pub-sub

• Kafka in 100 Seconds • Fireship 📺
• Kafka in a Nutshell • Kevin Sookocheff 📖
• Apache Kafka: The Definitive Guide • Confluent 📕

State machines

• 📺 Formal Forms with State Machines | React Next 2019 • 32 minute video by David Khourshid using a website form example to demonstrate the benefits of using xstate to model app logic using statecharts
• 📺 Let’s learn state machines with David K. Piano! — Learn With Jason • 66 minute video by David Khourshid and Jason Lengstorf gradually exposing and fixing the bugs in a website feedback form by refactoring its boolean logic to a statechart using xstate
• 📺 XState: Data Loading Service • 20 minute video by Leigh Halliday showing how to use a callback service to incrementally load data from an API

Domain-Driven Design

• What Is Event Storming? | Lucidchart Blog

Microservices

• Stop Creating Microservices | Prime Reacts • To avoid network latency and deployment complexity, you probably want modules in a monolith instead • The Primeagen 📺
• Death By A Thousand MicroService | Prime Reacts • A monolith is almost always a simpler and more performant architecture than microservices, which sounds like a great way to break down a problem into smaller pieces but end up adding maintenance complexity and network/serialization lag • The Primeagen 📺

Inbox

• The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup

• Engineering strategy notes. | Irrational Exuberance

• How Meta built the infrastructure for Threads - Engineering at Meta

• repo setup priorities: observability (especially useful error logging, but also traces) from the beginning; should be part of the initial setup step and a habit in every PR; when problems happen, it makes a huge difference if the logs/traces show you what’s wrong

• Clean Architectures in Python - Introduction - Leonardo Giordani

• Multi-Tenant SaaS Architecture (Next.js Auth) • ByteGrad 📺

• Serving a billion web requests with boring code - llimllib notes • Great description of all aspects of how a large government website was implemented • Bill Mill 📖

• Clean Architectures in Python - presented by Leonardo Giordani • Fantastic walkthrough of the four layers used when designing a system using the clean architecture pattern (entities, use cases, gateways, external systems) using a web app as an example. Study this! It’s well worth a try on my next new project • EuroPython Conference 📺