architecture

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I had the pleasure of interviewing two New York techies, Serkan Piantino of Facebook and Ken Little of Tumblr, at QConNY a couple of months ago. We mostly discussed large scale ...

One of my favorite talks at QCon 2011 was about Webmachine. I was very curious to see what those well-disciplined Erlang people had come up with. At the end of the talk I had le...

I’m at QConSF 2011.

I really enjoy the conversation with software architects on how to make technology choices. I polled the members of the New York CTO club on the topic and got amazing war storie...

A recent post “Rails is Not Your Application” caught my attention. It was fundamentally right, but the suggested implementation was misguided.

We made some progress with modularizing our Grape API in the last post. But we only had one version and declared Api_v1 as our main API entry. Unless you’re Netflix and need an ...

A lot of people ask me whether we use Rails controllers for our API. We don’t, we use Grape. Grape is a Rack-based system and a DSL that provides a cleaner separation, some API-...

In my experience I’ve rarely looked back at a technology decision and claimed to have made the absolute right one. Oh, I stood in front of plenty executive management and presen...

I’m teaching a class at General Assembly on April 20th.

Thanks to everyone for attending my “Breaking the Software Death Cycle with DDD” presentation last night at the DDD meet-up at Microsoft. It looks like the topic turned out to b...

I think this is a great extension of the classic “This is not a bug, it’s a feature” - “This is not a bug, it’s misaligned customer expectations.” by Kevlin Henney from this pre...

In this very good presentation about domain driven design (we do that, but more on that in a later post), Dan North (Thoughtworks) mentions Bug Driven Design. I love this conce...