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Using BAPO and DDD to design scalable product orgs
Business-Architecture-Process-Org and DDD inform a strategy for translating your business needs into technical system design that avoids incidental…
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Synchronous vs asynchronous communication: the leakiest abstraction
Synchronous and asynchronous communication are so fundamentally different that if you have to communication async anywhere in the stack, everything…
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Andrew Nicholson
Eventual Consistency is no silver bullet for the CAP Theorem
Eventual Consistency is often stated as the solution to the consistency/performance tradeoff in distributed systems (aka the CAP Theorem), but it's just…
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Teams should optimize for small changes
When it comes to shipping changes, bigger is not better.
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Andrew Nicholson

December 2024

My favorite functions for data manipulation
Software engineering is all about breaking complex problems into simpler parts.
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Andrew Nicholson
Four ways to handle concurrency in distributed systems
Distributed systems are complex because concurrency is complex.
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Avoid the autonomy trap
I have worked at startups pre, during, and post hypergrowth.
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Beyond the CAP Theorem - consistency models
tldr; Consistency models describe the consistency guarantees between processes in a distributed system.
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The hidden costs of low-code tools
There has been a recent boom of powerful off-the-shelf tools that allow non-programmers to build and operate software systems that can run a business.
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What is a distributed system?
Distributed systems are just that - systems whose components are distributed in space.
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Andrew Nicholson

November 2024

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