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
- 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
- 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
- Research Methods and Peer Review Advice
Other Blogs and Author Websites (in Alphabetical Order)
- Matthias Biel at the API University blog
- Alberti Brandolini’s avanscoperta blog
- Simon Brown’s speaker and trainer page
- Adrian Colyer’s morning paper
- Martin Fowler’s bliki
- Gregor Hohpe used to ramble about integration here but has decided to board the IT Architect Elevator some time ago. He seems to stay on the upper levels most of the time, but returns to the engine room from time to time (2017, 2021) 😉
- Michael Keeling’s blog (last post seems to be from 2015)
- Philippe Kruchten’s blog
- Kin Lane, aka the API Evangelist
- Daniel Lübke shows how process modeling can help you write better structured code and covers other topics themed “digital solution architecture”
- Michael Nygard blogs at the cognitect blog.
- Presentations by Michael Ploed on Speaker Deck
- Eltjo Poort’s blog
- Méline Sieber blogs here
- Michael Stal’s blog
- Gernot Starke does not seem to blog but co-authors the arc42 website
- Nick Tune’s Medium blog and the dddcrew on GitHub
- Vernon Vaughn’s blog at Kalele
- Rebecca Wirfs-Brock’s blog: agile landing zone, most responsible moment for ADs, Responsibility-Driven Design (RDD)
- Eoin Woods’s website