"The slide from “this tool helps me think” to “this tool thinks for me” is gradual enough that you don’t always notice it happening."
"The slide from “this tool helps me think” to “this tool thinks for me” is gradual enough that you don’t always notice it happening."
A new Blog section is now live on:
🔹 https://stackcompassguide.dev/blog.html
It contains articles about keeping architecture simple, avoiding overengineering, and recognizing common software anti patterns, based on real world decisions and tradeoffs. I will keep adding more over time.
If you are figuring out what to use and why, this might help or maybe even inspire you. 😉
I would really appreciate any feedback.
#programming #softwaredevelopment #cleancode #softwarearchitecture #devops #refactoring
96% fewer out-of-memory (OOM) failures!
#Pinterest shared how it improved the reliability of its #ApacheSpark workloads.
By focusing on:
✅ Enhanced observability
✅ Configuration tuning
✅ Automatic memory retries
The changes addressed persistent job failures affecting recommendation systems and large-scale data processing.
Details here ⇨ https://bit.ly/4smqrQD
#SoftwareArchitecture #BigData #CostOptimization #Memory #DistributedSystems #Observability #InfoQ
🎯 𝗖𝗥𝗨𝗗, 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 & 𝗗𝗗𝗗 – 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗪𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 | 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗚𝗼𝗹𝗼 𝗥𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗻
Is your architecture really the problem… or is it communication? 🤔 In this #SAG2025 expert interview, Golo Roden dives into the trade-offs between #CRUD, #EventSourcing, and #DomainDrivenDesign – and reveals why many teams struggle not because of technology, but because they don’t truly understand their domain.
Watch the full interview 👉 https://youtu.be/mOtoo-SFxfg
Residues and The Philosophy of Software Architecture by Barry M O’Reilly is the featured bundle on Leanpub!

This bundle includes the books “Residues: Time, Change and Uncertainty in Software Architecture” and “The Architect’s Paradox: Uncertainty and the Philosophy of Software Architecture” by Barry M O’Reilly. The books complement each other, with Residues giving a practical description of how to apply residuality theory and The Architect’s Paradox giving a deeper philosophical explanation of the ideas, as well as an introduction to philosophy for developers as a bonus!
The fourth article in the Architectural Decisions series is out now ✅
This time, it’s about why simplicity often wins over unnecessarily complex architecture in practice. Why it’s better to start simple, avoid premature optimization, and when it actually makes sense to introduce complexity.
If you’re dealing with system architecture or thinking about better technical decisions, it might give you a new perspective, maybe help, maybe inspire. 😉
🔹 https://mortylen.hashnode.dev/why-simple-architecture-wins
#programming #cleancode #softwarearchitecture #softwaredevelopment #decision #refactoring #devops
arc42 complete by Peter Hruschka, Wolfgang Reimesch, Ivan Kostov, Gernot Starke, Michael Simons, Stefan Zörner, Ralf D. Müller, and Hendrik Lösch is the featured bundle on Leanpub!
The #InfoQ article discusses the challenges faced during a migration from a relational database to NoSQL, focusing on the importance of database sequences for unique identifiers.
It outlines the development of a new sequence service using #DynamoDB and a two-tier #caching architecture.
🔗 Read now: https://bit.ly/4e6FRox
#SoftwareArchitecture #DistributedSystems #NoSQL #Database #Performance