Blog Index and Pointers to other Blogs
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This “meta-post” indexes all posts in The Concerned Architect (by topic) and points to blogs that I visit when I am not busy consulting, designing, coding, teaching, writing.
API Design, Cloud-Native and Microservices: Patterns, Principles, Definitions
- Article Series ‘API Design Pattern of the Week’
- API Patterns Website Redesigned and Sample Book Chapter Available (also on Medium)
- API Design Review Checklist: Questions Concerning the Developer Experience (DX) (has a Medium version)
- New Book “Patterns for API Design” Published (also on Medium)
- APIs should get to the POINT (also available on Medium)
- Questions to Ask when Migrating to the Cloud (also on Medium)
- What is a Cloud-Native Application Anyway? 12 Definitions Distilled (also on Medium)
- What is a Cloud-Native Application Anyway? From Analysis to Synthesis (also on Medium)
- Microservices Positions and Consolidated Definition (available in shorter forms on Medium as well: Part 1 and Part 2)
- Getting Started with Microservice API Patterns (MAP)
- MAP Retrospective and Outlook
- Survey on API Change Drivers and Evolution
Agile Architecting and Service Design: Tool Demos, Method Reference
- Design Practice Repository/Reference: GitPages and eBook Enhanced
- Domain-Driven Design in Practice — Experience with Context Mapper
- Process-Oriented Service Design with Discrete Event Simulation
- Story-Driven Service Design: From Feature Story to Minimum Viable API Product
- Event-Driven Service Design: Five Steps from Whiteboard to OpenAPI and Camel Flow
- Domain-Driven Service Design with Context Mapper and MDSL (has a Medium version)
- DPR: an Open Source Repository Collecting Mighty Methods (has a Medium version)
Architectural Decisions (ADs) and Software Architecture
- A Definition of Ready for Architectural Decisions (ADs)
- An Adoption Model for Architectural Decision Making and Capturing
- How to Build and Run a Decision-Making Architecture Board (guest post)
- How to create Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) — and how not to (has a Medium version)
- How to review Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) — and how not to (has a Medium version)
- The Markdown ADR (MADR) Template Explained and Distilled (has a Medium version)
- Architectural Significance Test and Some Core Decisions (shorter version on Medium)
- Architectural Decisions — The Making Of (short version on Medium)
- A Definition of Done for Architectural Decision Making (short version on Medium)
- ADR = Any Decision Record? Architecture, Design and Beyond
- Awesome Architecture Descriptions and Pattern Languages
Requirements and Software Engineering in General
- Fifty Years of IT: Evolutions and Constants — A Personal Retrospective (guest post)
- Blog about Energy Consumption and Sustainable Software Engineering: ‘Growing Green Software’
- Notes from The Architecture and Modeling Learning Event — Vaughn Vernon Signature Series Live in Action (also available on Medium, Part 1 and Part 2)
- Conference Reports (2020, 2021) and Calls for Participation
- Do Software Architectures Meet Extra-Functional or Non-Functional Requirements?
- Wanted: Your Insights, Stories and Experience Reports
- Driven by Acronyms (aka Cooking IT Alphabet Soup)
Technical Writing and Research Methods
- Messages from Practice to Academia, Part 3: Bridge Building and Topics of Interest
- Messages from Practice to Academia, Part 2: Reasons for the Research-Practice Gap
- Messages from Practice to Academia, Part 1: New Journal Column ‘Dear Researchers’
- Returning to EuroPLoP — Topics: API Refactoring and Pattern Visualization
- Technical Writing Tips and Tricks
- How to Write Review-Friendly Articles
- Shorthand and Markup for Speedy Note-Taking and Review Comments
- Research Methods and Peer Review Advice
If you are looking for my pointers to other blogs and personal websites, click here.