What is Reliability v/s Resiliency? Reliability, Resiliency and Recoverability are words often used interchangeably however, when designing software systems it is important to understand how they are related as well as differ from each other. Reliability means ability of a service to be healthy under normal conditions while Resilience means ability of a service to…

Did you know on average humans can have up to 60,000 thoughts every day, the majority of which are self-talk? That internal discourse can frequently be very negative for many of us. A little is okay and understandable, but too much can be detrimental to our performance, relationships, and self-esteem…

What is Multi-Tenancy Architecture? Multi-Tenancy Architecture refers to a system which allows multiple instances of an application operate in a shared environment. Although physically connected, the instances (tenants) are logically separated. In order to represent different use cases for different users or tenants, multi-tenant architectures are designed to be reconfigurable and flexible along specific…

The 3-Question Rule: What Is It? Ask a question when you begin a conversation with someone, pay attention to their answer, and then ask them two follow-up questions in the same manner. Why this works and why it takes three tries is psychological. It’s known as The Rule of Three which has been demonstrated to be…

What Is CQRS Design Pattern? CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) is an architectural pattern that separates write(create/update/delete) data stores from query data stores. Command or write actions, as well as complicated query activities, are traditionally executed against the same backend storage. However, there are a lot of scaling problems associated with this. Both write and…

What’s The Milk Carton Rule? It says that instead of dwelling on what you can’t change, focus on what you can. In psychology, it is referred to as expectation-reality-difference, which is an unreasonable belief and demand that collides with our desire and leaves us stuck in the victim role. The milk carton rule is based…

We want our software to adapt to changing requirements and allow for decentralized development. The SOLID design principles can be used to exploit many options provided by object-oriented languages for above. Here’s a cheatsheet for putting these principles into practice in your code: What Are SOLID Design Principles? SOLID is an acronym for Object-Oriented design…

We’ve all experienced the disparity between the monolithic architecture vs microservices architecture. This blog covers the fundamentals of microservices architecture and design principles to keep in mind when working on microservices patterns and its challenges. What Is Microservices Architecture? Microservices architecture is a service-oriented architecture in which an application is structured as a collection…

Asking questions is a common aspect of many professionals’ daily tasks. Questioning is a skill that can be honed to make conversations more productive. American novelist, Thomas Berger said, “The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” Here are 5 pointers on how to ask…