Architecture Zone

Exploring Software Development Methodologies

Gigi Sayfan brings some clarity to the concept of the methodology and investigates …

The Most Often Ignored Agile Practice

If you want to deliver the maximum business value in each iteration of your project, …

Ending the War of the Shells

See what Microsoft has been up to in regards to streamlining integration between *Nix …

Intelligent Load Balancing for a Microservices Application Architecture

Today, ALBs are taking up even more complex roles like SSL acceleration that can save …

Eventual Consistency

In general, distributed systems that are designed for eventual consistency typically …

Distributed Transaction Management in a Microservices Architecture

Distributed transaction management is a key architectural consideration that needs to …

The Value of the T-shaped Employee

Learn more about the concept of the T-shaped employee and how it applies in software …

Maintaining Productivity with Growth

The real issue is maintaining organizational productivity as the level of …

Examine the Strategic Value of APIs

Learn why providing a great API can allow you to really focus all your resources on the …

Are Development Books Becoming Obsolete?

Developers have an overwhelming number of options for accessing information--but are …

Building Agility into Your Stack

In order to benefit from new technologies, you need to build agility right into your …

Architecting Stable Systems and Solid Code

Solid code does what the developers intended it to do and can gracefully handle …

Have Courage in Extreme Programming

Extreme Programming has five main values: Simplicity, Communication, Feedback, Respect …

Building Robust Software

Explore some of the best ways to produce software that is not only high quality, but …

Augmented Reality is Here

If you're looking into a cool and promising domain to dive into, you can't go wrong …