CodeOpinion - Software Architecture & Design

Writing distributed applications like microservices can be challenging. I know, surprise, surprise. Performance, versioning, testing, and the list goes on are all aspects that make it difficult. So there’s got to be an answer in the form of tooling that...

I need to create an email service within my system. The service’s responsibility is to send out customer emails for things like Order Confirmation or when Billing information is changed. But how do we communicate with this email service when we need...

What is the worst mistake you can make when modeling a domain? I was asked this question by a member of my channel on our private Discord. Before giving you my answer, I decided to post this to the community for their take. Here are a few that were interesting...

Events are an API in an Event-Driven Architecture. Treat them that way. Often, events are thought of as either domain events or integration events. But there’s more of a distinction to be made. Here’s a slightly different way of thinking about events...