This article describes serverless integration patterns based on choreography and orchestration, pro-cons, and when to use them — In a monolith, in-process communication between components happens either via method invocation of function calls. When you are building a cloud solution, communication between components is a lot harder. …

This article describes common multicloud architecture patterns, deployments and network topologies. It is the second part of the multicloud trends article published some weeks ago [1]. — A quick snapshot of the different patterns that this article will cover, which are split between distributed and redundant deployments [2].

The other day, I was talking to a Database Administrator about database fault tolerance and the different types of Transaction Logs. …

I love design principles because they equip us with guidance even if you don’t know about a particular technology. Furthermore, they last forever. This article provides a fresh view of the framework from the design principles angle. — Following frameworks blindly can take you to either a false sensation of accomplishment or some serious unbalanced trade-offs. I have run through all design principles and recommendations and compiled them in this article; hope you find them useful.

During the most critical times of the COVID-19 pandemic, large data processing and analysis became fundamental to understand if the measures taken were appropriate and what we should do in the next few days, weeks and months. In comparison with other pandemics that occurred a century ago, like the Spanish…

Last Sunday afternoon, I was reading Morgan Housel’s Psychology of Money, in particular the section that says [1]: “…getting money and keeping money are two different skills. Getting money requires taking risks, being optimistic, and putting yourself out there. But keeping money requires the opposite of taking risk. It requires…

Understanding the difference between a fault tolerant solution and having some fault tolerant services in your architecture. — As you can see in the building above, it has some cracks and is still standing. Cracks are faults and it seems to be fault tolerant. However, since the building has been closed down, it is not usable as expected/specified. Consequently, not making it fault tolerant. Many cloud services offer…

If new toys do not guarantee success, what does it? I go through my 6 key ingredients that will help with that. — Throwing new technologies like darts to a dartboard to see if we hit the solution. Dilbert’s comic strip seems incredible, but it happens. These are my 6 key ingredients to pay attention when changing the system/s architecture: New toys do not guarantee success Business/IT collaboration

This article describes the different programming languages and runtimes available in the major cloud vendors. What is the adoption and trends. — What programming languages are available in each cloud vendor? Cloud providers offer several runtime language options, so I wanted to understand which are the supported languages in each and built a table with a simple graph to compare.