Diego Pacheco Tech blog

The current trend in front-end development is to be full stack. Being full-stack, has advantages from an efficiency point of view. However, having people proficient in both the front and backend can be challenging. The trend is that many javascript frameworks, initially only client-side, are moving to the backend and becoming full-stack frameworks. Backend change is happening gradually, probably starting with server-side rendering ( SSR ). Now, it is possible to have react code in the backend, which is referred to as react server components ( RSC ). Such an approach is not new. PHP , Rails , and Django have been doing that for decades now. Within similar timing, we saw the rise of HTMX where the backend levering HATEOAS returns HTML rather than just returning JSON. Interesting times. React is not the only framework (because it's not a lib) doing such a thing; we also have  Next.JS (on top of React), Svelte , Nuxt  and here is a good article on server components if you wan...

After 1+ year of hard work, my second book is finally out. Introducing: Principles of Software Architecture Modernization: Delivering Engineering Excellence with the art of fixing microservices, monoliths, and distributed monoliths. I've 20+ years of experience with technology and have been an architect and a technology consultant for most of this time, software architecture is a deep passion of mine. It is a huge pride and joy, for me to come here today to share this with you, my friends, and dear readers. 🎉🎉🎉 I deeply appreciate all the blessings God has given me, from my family, my daughter Clara, my wife Andressa, my work, and my friends. It was not easy to write this book 📘, there was sweat, blood, and tears, lots of remote work with my co-author Sam . Rest assured you are getting my passion, vision, and perspective of software architecture. First and foremost the book is about principles, tradeoffs, and software architecture design at the heart of complexity. The book is ...

Distributed Monoliths are the worst. Nothing good comes from distributed monoliths. No one wants to have distributed monoliths, and still, they are very common in the industry. Complexity just gets bigger, our industry just gets more and more entangled. Complexity has everything to do with distributed monoliths. Distributed Monoliths are very complex, much more than monoliths. How can you avoid a trap? By definition, the only way is not to follow into the trap. Understanding the trap is how you can avoid it. However, some traps cannot be avoided because there are bigger forces like acquisitions, pandemics, economic downturns, wars, or time. Time can easily be the biggest trap of all. We need to learn how to work effectively with monoliths and distributed monoliths because they are to stay and we can't ignore them. Fishing monoliths is a long-turn battle, that requires persistence, patience, and allies. Let's start by understanding monoliths and Distributed Monoliths a bit more.