Marcin Kuthan

Big data engineer leading @allegro real-time, highly scalable and fault-tolerant data ingestion platform. It processes a few billion events every day with e2e latency below one minute.

September this year is dedicated to reviewing software architecture books. This time, I’ve read Building Evolutionary Architectures written by Neal Ford. I appreciate the effort put into compiling this book. However, I found it to be more of a collection of existing books, articles and talks rather than offering new, original insights.

Building Evolutionary Architectures

Below is my brief summary of the book:

  • Rapid Business Evolution: The pace of business change is accelerating, necessitating that software systems keep up. Proper architecture is crucial for enabling software evolution.
  • Embracing Incremental Changes: Software engineers can’t predict unknown unknowns. By embracing incremental changes to test hypotheses, similar to evolutionary processes, failed experiments are discarded while successful ones are retained.
  • Short Release Cycles: Release cycles must be short. There is no time for manual, repetitive tasks; therefore, everything must be automated.

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