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Computers are easy, people are hard
Bridget Kromhout says designing distributed systems means considering failure scenarios—both likely and less so.
Ideas | Software Architecture
Observations on the changing discipline of software architecture.
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The evolution and future of software architecture
Mark Richards offers a glimpse of what software architecture will look like in the future, and he shares the things software architects will need to focus on in the years ahead.
Highlights from the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2017
Watch highlights covering microservices, distributed systems, security, and more. From the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2017.
Implementing a reactive microservices system
An architectural overview of an image processing example.
Modules vs. microservices
Apply modular system design principles while avoiding the operational complexity of microservices.
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Why you should standardize your microservices
An interview with Susan Fowler, Site Reliability Engineer at Uber Technologies.
4 essential skills software architects need to have but often don’t
A look into the unspoken side of software architecture.
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Design pressures lead to better code and better outcomes
An interview with Martin Thompson, High-Performance Computing Specialist at Real Logic.
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A quick overview of serverless
Mike Roberts, co-founder at Symphonia, on how serverless came about, where it's being used, and what lies ahead.
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Want to be a good software architect? Say "yes" to a lot of things.
An interview with Scott Shaw, Head of Technology, Australia, at ThoughtWorks.
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Microservices at Netflix: Teams and services are tightly aligned and loosely coupled
An interview with Dianne Marsh, Director of Engineering, Cloud Tools, at Netflix.
How can a big enterprise benefit from microservices?
Making a lasting impact with microservices takes more than a change in technology.
Reactive programming vs. Reactive systems
Landing on a set of simple reactive design principles in a sea of constant confusion and overloaded expectations.
Highlights from the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in San Francisco 2016
Watch highlights covering software architecture, microservices, distributed systems, and more. From the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in San Francisco 2016.
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Kubernetes: What you need to know ... and why
Kelsey Hightower offers a quick overview of Kubernetes—the community, the project, and the technology for managing containerized workloads.
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Listening to the design pressures
Martin Thompson explores the architectures that emerge from applying design patterns required for high performance, resilience, security, usability, and other quality-of-services measures.
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Microservices: Pros and cons
Rachel Laycock and Cassandra Shum take opposing sides in the microservices debate.
Understanding reactive architecture through the actor model
The O’Reilly Podcast: Hugh McKee on learning how to think asynchronously to create highly concurrent business systems.
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Walking the tightrope: Balancing bias to action and planning
Dianne Marsh explains how microservices paved the way for traffic steering at Netflix, and she highlights current challenges.
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Confessions of an enterprise architect
Faced with business and regulatory complexity, Scott Shaw found himself committing some of the software development acts he once condemned. He confesses those sins and explains why they’re sometimes necessary.
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An introduction to serverless
Mike Roberts introduces the concepts behind serverless architectures, explains how serverless breaks from the past, and provides reasons why it's worthy of some of the hype it’s currently receiving.
Highlights from the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London 2016
Watch highlights covering software architecture, microservices, distributed systems, and more. From the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London 2016.
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High-performance teams
Patrick Kua explores why and how software architects should care about high-performance teams.
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Am I only streaming? Thinking Reactive
Rob Harrop looks at how we can use the concepts of CSP, Actors, and Reactive as powerful tools for reasoning about our systems.
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The architecture of uncertainty
Kevlin Henney explains how uncertainty, lack of knowledge, and options can be used to drive a system’s architecture and its development schedule.
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Listening to the design pressures
Martin Thompson explores emergent designs and working practices that succeed in areas where the design pressures quickly cull that which does not deliver.
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The evolution of software architecture
Mark Richards discusses the factors that have enabled the evolution of software architecture over the past three decades and explores what the future of software architecture might look like.
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Microservices: Pros and cons
Taking opposing sides, Rachel Laycock and Cassie Shum debate the merits of microservices.
Microservices antipatterns and pitfalls
Author Mark Richards walks you through the 10 most common microservice anti-patterns and pitfalls, and provides solutions for avoiding them.
5 reasons to finally learn design patterns
Crafted by experienced object-oriented practitioners, design patterns can make your designs more flexible, more resilient to change, and easier to maintain.
Are microservices for you? You might be asking the wrong question.
Deciding whether to use microservices starts with understanding what isn’t working for you now.
Evolving architectures of FinTech
Learn how new FinTech architectures and startups are creating novel types of business models in Africa and Asia, where there are far fewer traditional banks, and in Europe and the US, where financial institutions generally avoid the market for small business loans.
5 questions that will make you a better software architect
Experienced software architects share their defining moments.
Reactive microservices for enterprise systems
The O’Reilly Podcast: Markus Eisele on the benefits and challenges of implementing a microservices-based architecture.
Three pillars of microservice culture
How focusing on communication, teams, and innovation can help you transform your company.
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From static to future-proof: Enterprise architectures in the age of the customer
Thomas Cozzolino highlights the importance of the developer experience, API-first thinking, common data models, and enterprise ecosystems, amidst the backdrop of growing customer expectations.
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Going cloud native: It takes a platform
Chip Childers explains what it means to be truly “cloud native,” what it takes to get there, and how a platform can make it all work.
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Let's make the pain visible
Janelle Klein outlines the Idea Flow Learning Framework, a strategy for measuring the friction in developer experiences that makes the problems visible.
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Evolving toward microservices: How HomeDepot.com made the transition
Christopher Grant offers the lessons his team learned as HomeDepot.com transitioned from monolith to microservices.
Keynotes from the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2016
Watch full keynotes covering software architecture, microservices, distributed systems and more. From the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2016.
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Conversational commerce
When a conversational style of user interface is coupled with ubiquitous instant messaging, new opportunities emerge for companies to interact with their customers.
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The evolution of evolutionary architecture
Rebecca Parsons looks at common software architecture practices and explains how our use of them has evolved.
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Bla bla microservices bla bla
Jonas Bonér looks at microservices from the perspective of first principles, distilling it to its essence and putting it within the context of distributed systems.
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What I learned about architecture from running marathons
Ted Malaska explains how long hours of training, blisters, and shin splints relate to life-changing lessons in software architecture.
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O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2016 livestream
Watch keynotes from the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York City.
Microservices shift complexity to where it belongs
Microservices are no free lunch, but they are smart nutrition.
How to make "just right" easier with microservices
Discover balance in polyglotism, persistence, and immutability.
Why a pattern language for microservices?
Find critical and often overlooked aspects of a solution to a problem.
Microservices need architects
Help guide your organization in the areas of service design, system design, and even organizational design.
How to find the right guidance on software architecture
Take these learning paths through O’Reilly’s upcoming Software Architecture Conference in New York City.
What I learned about software architecture from running a marathon
Good code comes from motivation and fresh minds.
Why you need to know about code maintainability
We need millions more software developers, and we need them now.
Optimize for desirable results
Whether it's a complex traffic network or a complex architecture, identifying the right goal, finding the right principles to focus on and optimizing your system design will give you the best chance of success.
Modern Java EE design patterns
Building scalable architecture for sustainable enterprise development.
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Life on “the edge” of the IoT
Joe Biron, VP of IoT Technology at ThingWorx, shares tools, terms, models, and architectural examples of how information is gathered from devices and communicated to the cloud and to you.
Caring doesn't scale
Information stored in silos can be connected with ease by the adoption of a few new standards.
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The evolution of evolutionary architecture
A look at common evolutionary architecture practices and how our use of them has evolved.
Contrasting architecture patterns with design patterns
How architecture and design patterns can add clarity and understanding to your project.
Field guide to the distributed development stack
When you explore a new technology landscape, the journey can take you to places you never expected. Read this guide to avoid pitfalls and save a lot of time.
Software architecture patterns
Take a deep dive into several common software architecture patterns