#software-architecture

Articles tagged with #software-architecture

Migrating Data to AWS, lessons learned
Introduction Hey everyone, Recently i’ve been working on migrating 1.5TB PostgreSQL worth of data to AWS from another cloud provider. I wanted to document the journey on the different attempts that were made and what did not work and what did. This i...
Apr 25, 20254 min read169
Software Architecture - The Hard Parts [Chapter 10] Distributed Data Access
Introduction In this chapter we’re going to be diving into the different ways services can read data they do not own, in monolithic systems using a single database, developers don’t give a second thought to reading database tables but when data is br...
Nov 10, 20245 min read85
Software Architecture - The Hard Parts [Chapter 9] Data Ownership and Distributed Transactions [Part 2]
Hey folks! This is the second part to the previous article where we discussed data ownership and which data belongs to which service. In this part we’ll dive into distributed transactions and talk specifics. If you didn’t read the first part make sur...
Nov 2, 20247 min read88
Software Architecture - The Hard Parts [Chapter 9] Data Ownership and Distributed Transactions [Part 1]
Introduction In this part, we’ll go through the changes that happen mainly to data once a monolithic system has been pulled apart into separate services each with its own domain. Every service abides by the bounded context rule in Domain Driven Desig...
Oct 26, 20248 min read195
[Software Architecture: The Hard Parts][Chapter 6] Pulling Apart Operational Data Part 2: Decomposing Monolithic Data
Introduction Hello everyone! In this series of articles we're going to be going through decomposing monolithic data, decomposing monolithic databases is hard but one particularly effective technique for breaking apart data is to leverage what is know...
Nov 11, 20234 min read80
[Software Architecture: The Hard Parts][Chapter 6] Pulling Apart Operational Data Part 1: Data Decomposition Drivers
Introduction Hello Everyone! In this article, I'm going to be going over a continuation of the previous article (Component-based decomposition patterns). After having several coarse-grained services, eyes turn to data and questions need to be asked w...
Nov 3, 20237 min read133