Architectural Trade-Offs: the Art of Minimizing Unhappiness
To architect is to be a frustrated perfectionist; a good architecture minimizes this unhappiness by making trade-offs that can be lived with. The main skill in architecting is making trade-offs. These trade-offs reflect the most important and difficult decisions a team will make about its architecture.
AI enhances software architecture by informing decisions, suggesting alternatives, and streamlining documentation. While it can’t replace human judgment, it accelerates MVP development and supports experimentation, trade-off analysis, and technical debt management when provided with sufficient context.
Helvetia’s journey building an enterprise serverless product with Terraform
What started as a basic compliance challenge for one team at Helvetia Insurance evolved into a comprehensive enterprise solution for running self-managed installations like a cloud service, using Terraform to manage a serverless architecture.
Designing for Defense: Architecting APIs with Zero Trust Principles
Renato Losio and a panel of security experts discuss designing for defense and architecting APIs with Zero Trust principles. They explain Zero Trust concepts, address challenges developers face in applying these, and highlight common API vulnerabilities.
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source...
Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how AI tools at the...
Serverless Workflow presents a vendor-neutral, open-source, and entirely community-driven ecosystem tailored for defining and executing DSL-based workflows in the realm of Serverless technology.
joelparkerhenderson/architecture-decision-record: Architecture decision record (ADR) examples for software planning, IT leadership, and template documentation
Architecture decision record (ADR) examples for software planning, IT leadership, and template documentation - joelparkerhenderson/architecture-decision-record
Developer Productivity in 2025: More AI, but Mixed Results
In 2024, a mismatch emerged between leadership expectations about AI-assisted developer productivity and what devs actually need. What will this year bring?
In recent years we have seen a significant increase in apps built using a microservices architecture. The main reason we select this approach is to have small teams that can work in isolation without having them trip over each other. Yet, this is an organizational problem, not a technical one. We can also build each service in different technology and scale independently.
Platform journey map: shape your platform strategy
Member post originally published on the Mia-Platform blog by Graziano Casto, DevRel Engineer, Mia-Platform TLDR: After years of helping people adopt digital platforms, we created the Platform Journey…