Architecture Weekly #9

Architecture Weekly Issue #9. Articles, books, and playlists on architecture and related topics. Every record has the complexity indication: 🤟 means hardcore, 👷‍♂️ is technically applicable right away, 🍼 - introduction to the topic or an overview.

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Streaming Vitess at Bolt 👷‍♂️

We already mentioned an article on Vitess used at YouTube. Bolt was using Vitess as well some time ago. They implemented streaming from the database cluster to Kafka for event driven architecture. Details - in the article.

Streaming Vitess at Bolt

How Bolt implemented Debezium Vitess Connector to stream data from Vitess to Kafka.

Bolt LabsKewei Shang

Culture of documentation 🍼

Writing docs can be boring, and its value is not evident to the developers. However, good documentation is crucial for onboarding new people and making proper decisions. The article describes how Google, Twitter, and Spotify changed their approaches to documentation. In short: remove friction and move documentation closer to code.

How Google, Twitter, and Spotify built a culture of documentation

No matter how advanced your tooling is, your documentation efforts will fail if you don’t foster a culture of documentation.

Niklas Begley