Software Architecture

The 20 Software Engineering Laws

Why software projects fail, systems rot, and teams slow down.

Apr 23 • Dr Milan Milanović

How Google, Amazon, and CrowdStrike broke millions of systems

What we can learn from the three biggest incidents in the software industry, this year.

Oct 30, 2025 • Dr Milan Milanović

How to Scale an App up to 10 Million Users on Azure

A deep-dive into an Azure Solution Architecture.

Sep 18, 2025 • Dr Milan Milanović

The Art and Science of Making Architectural Decisions with ADRs

A practical guide to Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)

May 22, 2025 • Dr Milan Milanović

How does Netflix manage to show you a movie without interruptions

A deep dive in the Netflix systems architecture.

Apr 10, 2025 • Dr Milan Milanović

What is a Modular Monolith?

Microservices are dead, monoliths are the future!

Feb 13, 2025 • Dr Milan Milanović

Mastering the Art of Software Architecture Documentation

By using arc42 format and C4 model.

Jun 20, 2024 • Dr Milan Milanović

Inside Shopify’s Modular Monolith

An interview with Principal Engineer Oleksiy Kovyrin

May 23, 2024 • Dr Milan Milanović

What is Clean Architecture?

and more than 40 resources to learn it well.

May 9, 2024 • Dr Milan Milanović

API Gateway vs. Load Balancer vs. Reverse Proxy

This issue will discuss the differences between API Gateway, Load Balancers, and Reverse Proxies. Also, we will investigate reverse proxy options in the…

Apr 18, 2024 • Dr Milan Milanović

My learnings from the book A Philosophy of Software Design

And the answer to the question what is the most complex problem in Computer Sciences.

Mar 14, 2024 • Dr Milan Milanović

Building Resilient Payment Systems by Shopify

This week’s issue brings you the following: How Shopify builds resilient payment systems Top 10 NASA rules for better coding.

Feb 29, 2024 • Dr Milan Milanović

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