Ball of mud codebase?

You can evolve it into a modular monolith without rewriting everything.
Here are 4 repeatable steps to start structuring the system again.

#microservices #softwarearchitecture #dotnet

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Stories of Facilitating Software Architecture & Design Archive - Virtual Domain-Driven Design by Organisers @virtualddd | Mar 3, 2026

Link to the stories as blog/vlog/podcast: buff.ly/ZH2jWIJ

#SoftwareArchitecture #FacilitatingSoftwareArchitecture #CollaborativeSoftwareDesign #SociotechnicalSystems #SFSAD #VirtualDDD

Why Enterprise Software Should Start With the Contract
Enterprise software often fails when teams begin coding before defining the system architecture.

Contract-First Development fixes this by defining APIs.
#SoftwareDevelopment #APIDesign #SoftwareArchitecture #EnterpriseSoftware #TechEngineering

🎉 Day 1 is underway at QCon London 2026.

Three days of practitioner-led talks on the architecture patterns and production practices teams are using right now, with a focus on real systems and real tradeoffs.

#QConLondon #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareArchitecture

AI Is Quietly Rewriting Your Organization Design The gap between your intended architecture and your actual architecture may already be widening

AI Is Quietly Rewriting Your Organization Design

open.substack.com/pub/serefaya...

#EngineeringLeadership #TeamTopologies #AgenticAI
#OrganizationDesign #ConwaysLaw #SoftwareArchitecture

GitNexus: The Nervous System Your AI Agent Was Missing I’d like to share some personal thoughts and experiences with you. I look forward to hearing your opinion and any experiences you might…

I just published GitNexus: The Nervous System Your AI Agent Was Missing medium.com/p/gitnexus-t...
#GitNexus #AIAgents #CodeIntelligence #MCPTools #SoftwareArchitecture

GitNexus: The Nervous System Your AI Agent Was Missing I’d like to share some personal thoughts and experiences with you. I look forward to hearing your opinion and any experiences you might want to share in return.

Check out my latest article: GitNexus: The Nervous System Your AI Agent Was Missing www.linkedin.com/pulse/gitnex... via @LinkedIn
#GitNexus #AIAgents #CodeIntelligence #MCPTools #SoftwareArchitecture

Architecture tip: treat observability as a first-class feature. If you can’t explain latency & errors in prod, you don’t really “own” the system yet. What’s your go-to starting metric? #SoftwareArchitecture #CloudNative

Hope Is Not a Strategy in Fintech

The shift from mid-level to senior engineering thinking happens when you stop asking “will this work?” #softwarearchitecture

Are you struggling with a legacy monolith and want to make it better? Feel like microservices are too big for what you need? Consider using a modular monolith!

▶️ We talk about it here in this video: https://youtu.be/I22KjlAtBHU

#SoftwareArchitecture #SoftwareDevelopment

Arquitectos de software usando Hexagonal Architecture, CQRS usando event bus, base de datos de lectura y escritura, usando RabbitMQ, domain events para una web que no usa nadie

#SoftwareArchitecture #humor

Keep it visible, smartass Why communication always fails, except by accident?

New tale: talesfrom.dev/blog/keep-it... in which people exchange information, but do they exchange understanding? What can we learn from Dijkstra when it comes to assumptions? Why words are dangerous?

#softwareengineer #csharp #dotnet #softwarearchitecture #dddesign #java #typescript

Behind Voat: Colo and Chastain - Negative PID When Reddit closed some of its most controversial communities, thousands of users migrated to Voat, a small platform built by Atif Colo and Justin Chastain.

Behind Voat: Colo and Chastain

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#voat #psychology #onlineBehaviour #humanBehaviour #onlineSafety #behaviouralStudies #socialMedia #identity #Internet #tech #IT #softwareArchitecture #negativepid

The best architecture decisions aren't just about scalability or performance — they're about accessibility. If your system works flawlessly but excludes users, you've optimized for the wrong metric. #WebAccessibility #SoftwareArchitecture

Senior Engineers Know the Hardest Part Isn’t Coding

The most expensive code I ever wrote solved the wrong problem perfectly. #softwarearchitecture

API: A comprehensive journey through Domain-Driven Design, the Synergetic Blueprint, and the… APIs are a rich topic and there are many books on the subject. Some are entirely dedicated to APIs, while others cover them as part of…

"APIs are forever, code is for the moment". 🛠️
Just published a deep dive into "Crafting Great APIs with DDD".
Successful APIs prioritize Developer Experience (DX).
#SoftwareArchitecture #APIDesign #DDD

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Most monoliths start clean.
Then shortcuts accumulate, dependencies point the wrong way, and the architecture diagram stops matching the code.
That’s architectural entropy.
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#microservices #softwarearchitecture

Commit history: 24,391 changes
System architecture: LOADING…

AI accelerates code.
Understanding doesn’t scale the same way.

#DevTools #SoftwareArchitecture #AIcoding #Syntaxa

Mixing oil & water? That’s the challenge of modern #SoftwareArchitecture: Deterministic Systems must coexist with Non-Deterministic AI.

This #InfoQ article introduces the Architect’s V Impact Canvas - a framework designed to keep human trust at the center of AI integration.

➡️ bit.ly/4s8RUpP

The last part of my series on the @qt blog has been published this week:
www.qt.io/blog/qtwidgets-to-qtquic...

We reached the end of this journey. I hope it gives a clearer idea of how to safely approach software architecture transitions in general, and for the […]

Senior Engineers Should Teach, Not Just Code

Senior engineers need to learn how to multiply their impact through others. #softwarearchitecture

The Million-Dollar Bug: The Lessons That It Taught Me

What would happen if the “impossible” bug in your architecture actually occurred? #softwarearchitecture

LadybugDB for Edge Agent AI memory by Volodymyr Pavlyshyn is the featured book on Leanpub!

Link: leanpub.com/ladybugdb

#Ai #SoftwareArchitecture

O boom das plataformas de conteúdo hoje exige escala real. De front a back, o desafio é estabilidade sob pressão. Dados voando em tempo real não aceitam erros de arquitetura. 🎥⚡ #Streaming #Scale #SoftwareArchitecture

🤖 Lo siento, Charlie: StarKist quiere una IA con buen gusto

Un código descuidado genera IA con mal comportamiento, no solo errores.

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#AIethics #DevOps #SoftwareArchitecture #RoxsRoss

🎤 The #BaselOne2026 Call for Papers is open!

Talks & workshops on software engineering, #Java and #SoftwareArchitecture.

📍 Basel
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⏰ Deadline: 30 April 2026

Previous speakers include @patbaumgartner.com, @hansolo.eu and Cosima Laube.

Submit: sessionize.com/baselone-2026/

Netflix shared the blueprint for migrating 400+ production clusters with minimal downtime.

How❓ By building an internal automation platform to move from Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to Aurora.

🔗 bit.ly/4bm9Vtk

#InfoQ #SoftwareArchitecture #migration #databases #PostgreSQL #AmazonRDS #AmazonAurora

Residues and The Philosophy of Software Architecture 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…

Residues and The Philosophy of Software Architecture by Barry M O’Reilly is the featured bundle on Leanpub!

Link: leanpub.com/b/residues

#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareArchitecture

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A modular monolith only works if the boundaries are real.
Modules own their data, expose contracts, and keep changes isolated.
Otherwise it slowly becomes a ball of mud.
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#softwarearchitecture #microservices

Evelyn van Kelle and I are on the train back from @amaconf.bsky.social, and we wanted to share something we promised during our talk.

#DomainDrivenDesign #SoftwareArchitecture #DecisionMaking #CognitiveBias #CollaborativeSoftwareDesign
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