Software Design and Architecture Resources

Vertical vs. Horizontal Decomposition of Responsibility

Objects with too many responsibilities are often prime candidates for refactoring. We take a look at the Decomposition of Responsibility pattern for performing these refactorings. Read on to find out more about the pattern and how to use (and not use) it.

September 2, 2016

by Yegor Bugayenko

· 11,231 Views · 13 Likes

JAX-WS With MTOM Using Mule

Want your XML to stay lightweight? See how to keep it that way to avoid bloated messages.

September 2, 2016

by Anil Kumar V

· 6,169 Views · 11 Likes

Creating Your First Elm App: From Authentication to Calling an API (Part 2)

In the first part of this tutorial, we introduced the Elm language by building a simple Elm Application that called an API. Now we'll authenticate with JSON Web Tokens to make protected API requests.

September 1, 2016

by Kim Maida

· 7,084 Views · 4 Likes

The Fallacies of Enterprise Computing (Part 1)

Any enterprise system is subject to the same fallacies as any other distributed system. Reliability, latency, bandwidth, security, the whole nine yards.

September 1, 2016

by Ted Neward

· 4,740 Views · 9 Likes

APIs and Compression

Compression is a big deal. Especially at scale. It saves time, money, bandwidth; all good things. Find out how much it can save you.

August 30, 2016

by Lori MacVittie

· 3,704 Views · 3 Likes

Advanced Load Testing Scenarios with JMeter (Part 4): Stepping Thread Group and Concurrency Thread Group

In this final blog post in this JMeter series, learn how Stepping Thread Groups and Concurrency Thread Groups can determine how many users your system can handle.

August 29, 2016

by Noga Cohen

· 20,540 Views · 3 Likes

S3-Compatible Storage With Cassandra

See how one company got storage working between Amazon S3 and Cassandra, how they factored in eventual consistency, and even see the source code.

August 29, 2016

by Matthew Revell

· 11,773 Views · 3 Likes

Using @Named vs. @ManagedBean

Determining the best annotations to use for controlling JSF apps using different web containers.

August 29, 2016

by Martin Farrell

· 29,052 Views · 3 Likes

Microservices: An Example With Docker, Go, and MongoDB

See how you can set up your own system using a combination of microservices, containers, Go, and MongoDB. In this scenario, see a fictional movie theater come to life.

August 29, 2016

by Manuel Morejón

· 34,022 Views · 18 Likes

Advanced Load Testing Scenarios With JMeter (Part 3): Top 4 Timers

In part three of this series, see which four timers work well with JMeter for better control during your load testing.

August 27, 2016

by Noga Cohen

· 9,091 Views · 3 Likes

Authenticating API Clients With JWT and NGINX Plus

This is the first in a six‑part series of blog posts that explore the new features in NGINX Plus R10 in depth. Let's start with authentication and JSON Web Tokens.

August 27, 2016

by Liam Crilly

· 10,893 Views · 4 Likes