Diego Pacheco Tech blog

Once upon a time, Design Patterns was a big thing. In current times, perceptions have shifted and the industry has mixed feelings about them. I've thought a lot of blogging about design patterns was worth it or not. I used a lot of patterns in my life, there were moments when I was completely okay with design patterns, and other times not so okay. I got some mixed feelings but today I think they are fine. IMHO there are some fairness and some misconceptions. There are hundreds of Design Patterns, there are patterns for everything you can imagine. Usually when people complain about patterns they are talking about OOP patterns, more specifically from the 90s book from the GOF .   Patterns are not limited to OO, there are functional programming patterns, system programming patterns, OS patterns, cloud computing patterns, frontend patterns, and mobile patterns. Lots of these patterns are very similar, at the end of the day not all problems are that different, and are all about ideas an...

Normalmente eu nao blog em português, mas hoje quero compartilhar um programa que participei recentemente. Programa gravado com o Inacio da South System sobre Arquitetura de Software, mais especificamente falando de Microservices, SOA, Shared-Libs e bem como os problemas e as soluções. Microservices estão em baixa nos dias de hoje. Porém muitas vezes não entendemos por que estamos usando microservices e nem por que estamos parando de usa-los. Muito difícil conversar sobre SOA e microservices sem falar de shared-libs e o impacto nessas arquiteturas. Nessa conversa você ira entender mais os problemas desse landscape bem como muitas alternativas para editar esses problemas. Entao bora la ver esse video! 

So this is 3rd part of the series of BFF Dilemma. If you did not read part 1 and part 2 I highly recommend read them before continuing with this one. GraphQL is a kind of BFF I would say. BFFs then to be more flexible and allow all sorts of programming models and techniques. GraphQL is Data-Driven and has fewer options in a sense of flexibility. However, GraphQL is an interesting solution that could be used as a BFF solution or in conjunction with a standard BFF solution. Several people wonder if GraphQL is the natural replacement of REST. There are all sorts of comparisons with SOAP vs REST vs GraphQL. IMHO GraphQL is not the REST replacement I would not expose APIs only with GraphQL ONLY for all sorts of reasons.