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 Benefit vs risk of falling out of date?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 📺
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
xstateto 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
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 📺