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Coding Isn’t the Hard Part

I keep seeing posts pushing back on the idea that coding isn’t the hard part. And I get why. A lot of the disagreement comes down to what people mean by coding. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content on Software Architecture & Design, including this video showing everything in this post. But in the world I work in, coding usually is not the hard part. I’m talking about line of business and enterprise apps. Order management, healthcare, insurance, logistics, and similar systems. In those kinds of systems, the real difficulty is usually not writing code.… Read More »Coding Isn’t the Hard Part

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Vertical Slices doesn’t mean “Share Nothing”

How do you share code between vertical slices? Vertical slices are supposed to be share nothing, right? Wrong. It is not about share nothing. It is about sharing the right things and avoiding sharing the wrong things. That is really the point. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content on Software Architecture & Design, including this video showing everything in this post. Boundaries If you have watched my videos before, you probably know I talk a lot about boundaries. A vertical slice is not that different from a logical boundary. What matters here is that a… Read More »Vertical Slices doesn’t mean “Share Nothing”

Read Replicas Are NOT CQRS (Stop Confusing This)

What’s overengineering? Is the outbox pattern, CQRS, and event sourcing overengineering? Some would say yes. The issue is: what’s your definition? Because if you have that wrong, then you’re making the wrong trade offs. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content on Software Architecture & Design, including this video showing everything in this post. “The outbox pattern is only used in finance applications where consistency is a must. Otherwise, it’s just overengineering.” Not exactly. “CQRS is overengineering and rarely used even at very high scale companies. One master DB for writes and a bunch of replica… Read More »Read Replicas Are NOT CQRS (Stop Confusing This)