This “meta-post” lists all posts in The Concerned Architect by topic area. Pointers to blogs that I visit when I am not busy consulting, designing, coding, teaching, writing can be found here.
Architecture Decision (AD) Making and Capturing
- ADG: A Light Architectural Decision Guidance and Management Tool
- Architectural Decisions — The Making Of (short version on Medium)
- A Definition of Ready for Architectural Decisions (ADs)
- Seven Architectural Decision Making Fallacies (and Ways Around Them)
- How to create Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) — and how not to (has a Medium version)
- The Markdown ADR (MADR) Template Explained and Distilled (has a Medium version)
- A Definition of Done for Architectural Decision Making (short version on Medium)
- How to review Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) — and how not to (has a Medium version)
- An Adoption Model for Architectural Decision Making and Capturing
- ADR = Any Decision Record? Architecture, Design and Beyond
Software Architecture, Cloud Application Architectures
- Do Software Architectures Meet Extra-Functional or Non-Functional Requirements?
- Architectural Significance Test and Some Core Decisions (shorter version on Medium)
- Awesome Architecture Descriptions and Pattern Languages
- How to Build and Run a Decision-Making Architecture Board (guest post)
- Questions to Ask when Migrating to the Cloud (also on Medium)
- What is a Cloud-Native Application Anyway? 12 Definitions Distilled (also on Medium)
- What is a Cloud-Native Application Anyway? From Analysis to Synthesis (also on Medium)
- DPR: an Open Source Repository Collecting Mighty Methods (has a Medium version)
API Design and Microservices
- Article Series ‘API Design Pattern of the Week’
- API Design Review Checklist: Questions Concerning the Developer Experience (DX) (has a Medium version)
- New Book “Patterns for API Design” Published (also on Medium)
- API Patterns Website Redesigned and Sample Book Chapter Available (also on Medium)
- APIs should get to the POINT (also available on Medium)
- Microservices Positions and Consolidated Definition (available in shorter forms on Medium as well: Part 1 and Part 2)
- Getting Started with Microservice API Patterns (MAP)
- MAP Retrospective and Outlook
- Survey on API Change Drivers and Evolution (closed)
Domain-Driven Design and Software Engineering
- Driven by Acronyms (aka Cooking IT Alphabet Soup)
- Design Practice Repository/Reference: GitPages and eBook Enhanced
- Fifty Years of IT: Evolutions and Constants — A Personal Retrospective (guest post)
- Blog about Energy Consumption and Sustainable Software Engineering: ‘Growing Green Software’
- Notes from The Architecture and Modeling Learning Event — Vaughn Vernon Signature Series Live in Action (also available on Medium, Part 1 and Part 2)
- Conference Reports (2020, 2021) and Calls for Participation
- Returning to EuroPLoP — Topics: API Refactoring and Pattern Visualization
Technical Writing and Research Methods
- Messages from Practice to Academia, Part 1: New Journal Column ‘Dear Researchers’
- Messages from Practice to Academia, Part 2: Reasons for the Research-Practice Gap
- Messages from Practice to Academia, Part 3: Bridge Building and Topics of Interest
- How to Write Review-Friendly Articles
- Technical Writing Tips and Tricks
- Shorthand and Markup for Speedy Note-Taking and Review Comments
- Research Methods and Peer Review Advice
- Do’s and Don’ts in Technical Reports about Term and Thesis Projects
- Novel Measurements for Academic Work (and Beyond?)
Methods and Tools in Action
- Domain-Driven Design in Practice — Experience with Context Mapper
- Process-Oriented Service Design with Discrete Event Simulation
- Story-Driven Service Design: From Feature Story to Minimum Viable API Product
- Event-Driven Service Design: Five Steps from Whiteboard to OpenAPI and Camel Flow
- Domain-Driven Service Design with Context Mapper and MDSL (has a Medium version)
Misc
- Blog Index (and Pointers to other Blogs) (this post)
- Happy Birthday ‘The Concerned Architect’: Five Years, 50 Posts
- Classical Papers in Computer Science and Software Engineering: A Reading Group
- Reports of Your Insights, Stories and Experience Reports (IEEE Software Insights 2015-2025; note: column no longer active)
- Ten Resources about AI in Software Engineering You Do Not Want to Miss
- More Resources about AI You Might Want to Review
Other Blogs and Websites
If you are looking for my pointers to other blogs and personal websites, click here.