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📅 January 20, 2020 Software Architecture From Scratch ⏱ 3 minutes read

Architecting The User Experience

Architecture design can start at the back-end or the front-end. In either case, you will end up architecting the user experience at some point. The architecture will come out of the user interface and…

📅 January 17, 2020 Software Architecture From Scratch ⏱ 3 minutes read

Architecting Large File Storage – Software From Scratch

One of the architectural challenges that are often overlooked is large file storage. These may be documents, images, or other general binary structures. This situation is also becoming a much more common challenge for…

📅 January 15, 2020 Software Architecture From Scratch ⏱ 3 minutes read

Selecting Languages, Frameworks, and Libraries – Architecture From Scratch

One of the rarest of decisions we are allowed to make is when it comes to selecting languages and frameworks or maybe even libraries for our project. These decisions are often out of our…

📅 January 14, 2020 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 2 minutes read

Switching Jobs – When and How to Change Jobs

Getting that first career job can be extremely difficult and stressful. Doubly so when it comes to switching jobs. That’s because so many people tend to stick with their first job for years because…

📅 January 13, 2020 Software Architecture From Scratch ⏱ 3 minutes read

Architecting The Database

In no particular order, we will look at architecting the database as we continue our tour of software architecture from scratch. There are several key considerations to keep in mind while doing this work. …

📅 January 10, 2020 Software Architecture From Scratch ⏱ 3 minutes read

Frontend or Backend Where To Start? – Software Architectural Decisions

Every journey starts somewhere. When we architect a solution, we need to decide whether to start at the frontend or the backend. There are pros and cons to each approach. Therefore, we need to…

📅 January 8, 2020 Software Architecture From Scratch ⏱ 3 minutes read

Software Architecture – Agile vs Waterfall

The decision of Agile vs Waterfall in software development is not often linked to architecture. However, there is a difference in your approach that depends on the SDLC you choose. This choice is one…

📅 January 7, 2020 AWS Tour ⏱ 2 minutes read

Introduction to Amazon ECS

In our Introduction to Amazon ECS discussion, we will be covering the in and outs of setting up containers on Amazons ECS (Elastic container service).

📅 January 6, 2020 Software Architecture From Scratch ⏱ 2 minutes read

Software Architecture From Scratch – Season Kick-Off

We kick off the season on software architecture from scratch with an overview of what we will cover. We also set the table for the assumptions we will make as we walk through our…

📅 December 27, 2019 Special Topics ⏱ 3 minutes read

Looking Forward and Planning for the Year Ahead

As we near the end of a decade, it is time to consider planning for the year ahead. We need to consider the goals we want to achieve and how much better to be…