Software architecture - Polling, pushing and pulling data between applications and services
In this post I will describe the advantages of polling and pushing data in your applications. The patterns are used in most distributed systems. I will »
Great traits and features of software architectures
I have been wanting to write this article for quite some time, as I have always been interested in Software Architecture. Not any architectural style in »
Great books that you should consider as a developer or software architect in 2021
As I have done for the past 5 years, I will again this year create a list of my favourite books on software development. In recent »
Software development - What is idempotence and what is an idempotent API? - Updated 2022
Defining Idempotence According to Wikipedia idempotence is described as: The property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science whereby they can be applied multiple times »
What is software architecture? with definitions and examples - updated for 2022
It can be hard to grasp what software architecture is as it encompasses a wide range of theoretical and practical disciplines. It ranges from describing how »
Software architecture - defining what is a monolith?
There are not many definitions of monoliths out there and they are often portrayed as the opposite of a microservice architecture or what not to do. »
Microservices - what is a nano service?
I often use the term "nano service", but I figured that I had never defined this, that I will do in this post. In order to »
Great must-read programming books for developers that you should read in 2019
As I have done for the past 3 years, I will again this year create a list of my favourite books on software development. As seen »
Book review - Release It by Michael T. Nygard
During my studies for a Master's degree I read a lot of books. Sometimes good books and sometimes books that seem to be written entirely for »
Should you use MQ/Brokers or Web services? and how are they different?
Having worked with both message queues and web services I decided to write a little bit about their differences. Throughout my career I have heard a »