Blog Index (A–Z)

Event Driven Architecture (EDA) is a modern software design pattern where systems communicate through events rather than direct calls. Instead of services requesting and waiting for responses, they…

ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 is an international standard that provides guidance for describing system and software architectures. It ensures that architecture descriptions are consistent, comprehensive, and understandable to all stakeholders.

A message broker is middleware that routes, stores, and delivers messages between independent parts of a system (services, apps, devices). Instead of services calling each other directly, they…

State is the “memory” of a system—the data that captures what has happened so far and what things look like right now. State management is the set of…

Tight coupling is when one component depends directly on the concrete implementation, lifecycle, and behavior of another. If A changes, B likely must change too. This is the…

Loose coupling is a design principle in software engineering where different components, modules, or services in a system are designed to have minimal dependencies on one another. This…

A modular monolith is a software architecture style where an application is built as a single deployable unit (like a traditional monolith), but internally it is organized into…