Boxes Are Easy. Arrows Are Hard. What Software Architecture Really Is About – @samnewman4355
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Software architecture isn’t just boxes and diagrams — it’s the arrows between them.
A sharp take on synchronous vs asynchronous and request/response vs event-driven systems, and why debates like Apache Kafka vs GraphQL usually miss the real question.
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Sam Newman - Microservices Expert & Author of "Building Microservices" & "Monolith to Microservices" @samnewman4355
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