Posts tagged architecture.
Every unit of work in a data processing system should aspire to be small, independently processable, and consistently sized. When these three properties hold, scaling becomes almost trivially simple.
Batch processing architecture has a clean pattern that scales elegantly: decouple batch systems asynchronously from everything else.
When designing data platforms, I frequently encounter teams trying to build one unified system that handles both real-time streaming and batch analytics.
Most architecture discussions devolve into abstract debates about microservices, monoliths, and database choices. After years of explaining these concepts to engineers and product leaders, I've found that thinking about software architecture like a physical