non functional requirements

December 13, 2021

Designing High-Volume Systems Using Event-Driven Architectures

Prelude

Microservices style application architecture is taking root and rapidly growing in population that are possibly scattered in different parts of the enterprise ecosystem. Organizing and efficiently operating them on a multi-cloud environment organizing data around microservices, making the data as real-time as possible are emerging to be some of the key challenges.

Thanks to the latest development in Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) platforms such as Kafka and data management techniques such as Data Meshes and Data Fabrics, designing microservices-based applications is now much easier.

November 12, 2019

Top-Down Design — an Approach for Flawless Software Design and Implementation

Check out this "top-down" view.

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Top-Down Design

In software development, you would have read in many articles and books that the design should be a top priority. A good design would resolve many issues. The design will bring in more clarity to the developers. It will give granular details on the exact requirements. In this article, I am going to discuss the Top-Down Design approach. I will explain step by step by taking an example of eLearning.

A problem must be viewed at multiple levels. Each one of them has its benefits. The different levels in software design or development are as follows

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