Data as a Product is a Promise
Domaindriven design (DDD) has been around for quite a long time. In short, DDD focuses on domain to match domain requirements. One of the pillars of DDD is bounded context. A bo...
Articles tagged with API Design
API design posts on interface boundaries, versioning, usability, contracts, and building APIs that stay useful and stable over time.
Service Overload Strategies
Service overload happens a lot. If you haven't seen one, count yourself lucky. The first time I watched it take a system down, I realized how serious it’s to get the basics righ...
Compatibility Is a Feature
A system only reveals what it's made of when it starts changing. At first, they often look better than they are because the code is still new. The data is still fairly clean. Th...
Good APIs Age Slowly
I have noticed that APIs are a bit like abstractions in general. APIs that impress people quickly are very often the ones that cause the most trouble later. I do not mean this a...
On Writing Wrapper Libraries
A wrapper library is a thin layer of abstraction around an existing library, dependency, or functionality. A wrapper library offers a better and cleaner interface or rather hide...