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From 60 Repos to One: How Wix Tackled Monorepo Migration - Part1
At Wix, we faced a challenge that will sound familiar to many developers: managing an ever-growing backend codebase spread across 60 separate repositories. With over 30 million lines of code, 6,000 daily builds and 600 daily production deployments, our development workflows were starting to strain under the weight of fragmentation. // Update: Part 2 of this story is now available: Read it here.This is the story of how our teams came together to tackle one of the biggest engineering overhauls in
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