Recent years have been marked by microservices. Who among you hasn’t heard of them? They were everywhere – at conferences, groups, job listings, coffee talks, and blog posts. At some point it got to the point where if you weren’t working on a system composed of microservices, it was kind of a problem – you felt the world was getting away from you, and your colleagues were in another galaxy. Someone found a silver bullet for the design of IT systems. On the other...

How to enforce Modular Monolith architecture - approaches, tools and best practices

What is a Modular Monolith architecture - introductory post in article series about monolithic and modular systems

Stop me if you know this one. You find a library/framework that does some­thing use­ful to you. You start using it and then realise it doesn’t work the way you want it in cer­tain sce­nario or has a miss­ing feature. What do you do then?Aban­don the library and look for alter­na­tive that is more “fea­ture rich”? Ask the author to sup­port your scenario/submit a pull request with the feature? Those two, from my expe­ri­ence, a...