Gracie Gregory (she/her) for The DEV Team

Posted on Sep 28, 2020

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The DevDiscuss Podcast begins with an interview and ends with commentary from listeners — and we like to feature the actual voices from our community!

This week's prompt: “What are you burning questions about software architecture?”

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Oldest comments (24)

Mike Bybee • Sep 28 '20

As an architect myself, who learned what not to do from inheriting others' architecture (and who was forced to implement it earlier in my career), my question is:

Why do so many of you make it so damn complicated? And have none of you ever considered that junior devs might make up part (or possibly even all) of the team implementing it?

Go work for a tiny, cash-strapped startup, and you'll see how little of that crap can fly.

ender minyard • Sep 28 '20

What are microservices?
What is CQRS?
Can you explain why people use frameworks?
Assuming people use frameworks just for modularity - is it possible to scale and have a fast website?

You can answer any (or none!) of these :-)

Gracie Gregory (she/her) • Sep 28 '20

Thanks, @ender_minyard !! Any chance you'd be interested in sending in a voice recording of this comment? Or a similar one? We'd love to feature your voice on the podcast :) Instructions above if you are open to this!

Sharad Raj (He/Him) • Sep 28 '20 • Edited

Is agile still used ?

Christopher Wray • Sep 28 '20

What is the best way to store authentication API tokens on the client?

Alexandru Muntean • Sep 28 '20

Hello,

My questions are:
1) Why people are talking they are doing microservices when what are they actually doing is a monolith with several services or REST calls? Where is the misunderstanding? :)
2) Which are the most commonly used software architecture styles and patterns?
3) Are there any steps to follow when starting a new project and you have to design the architecture for it?

Thanks in advance!

Gracie Gregory (she/her) • Sep 28 '20

Thank you, @alexandrum ! We'd love to hear a voice recording of this comment if you're open to it! Instructions above if you might be interested in that!

Alexandru Muntean • Sep 30 '20

Glad you like them, but I am too shy even for a voice recording. Sorry :(

Jorge Catriel Lopez • Sep 28 '20

Should we always follow a design pattern? When is it ok to not use one?

Glenn Paquette • Sep 29 '20 • Edited

As someone who is starting to work on larger projects and trying to bring in other devs to contribute, I'd love to get a bit of a breakdown on how to approach architecture planning for a project.

What things need to be considered? As in, what questions should you ask yourself for every project you plan.
What are some red flags that point to potential problems that should be addressed?
What is something you wish you knew as a beginner, as in, something that would have made a project easier or saved you from problems down the line?
How to deal with opposing opinions on architecture from your team. Example: SQL vs NoSQL, node vs go, etc... Seems like everyone has an opposing opinion on what is best.

Nipuna Weerasekara • Sep 29 '20

One big question;

Is SOA dead and replaced by Micro-Services?

I have this question for years now. I learned about SOA as an undergraduate and I have this burning question. 🤷

Gracie Gregory (she/her) • Sep 29 '20

Thanks, @niweera ! I'd be interested to hear an answer to this myself!

Any interest in sharing this comment as a recording so we can feature your voice on an upcoming episode of the pod? If so, instructions on recording and submitting are above! Thanks 😊