https://muhammadamal.my.id/tags/architecture/ Recent content in Architecture on Hi, I'm Muhammad Amal Hugo en-us Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/architecture-reviews-that-dont-waste-senior-time/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/architecture-reviews-that-dont-waste-senior-time/ A practical playbook for architecture reviews that actually inform decisions, with templates for prep docs, review rubrics, and the rules that keep meetings short. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/writing-adrs-that-actually-inform-decisions/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/writing-adrs-that-actually-inform-decisions/ An opinionated guide to ADRs that work in real engineering orgs, with a battle-tested template, scoring rubric, and the structural choices that make ADRs readable. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/consultative-discovery-for-complex-software-architectures/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/consultative-discovery-for-complex-software-architectures/ A senior engineer’s discovery playbook for ambiguous architecture work, with question sets, interview structure, and a discovery brief template that drives real decisions. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/advanced-n8n-architecture-2025-queue-mode-worker-scaling/ Mon, 04 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/advanced-n8n-architecture-2025-queue-mode-worker-scaling/ How n8n 1.78 actually runs at scale, the main and worker split, Bull queues, concurrency knobs, and where queue mode earns its keep. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/agent-to-agent-communication-protocols-choosing-the-right-one/ Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/agent-to-agent-communication-protocols-choosing-the-right-one/ A senior engineer’s guide to picking an agent-to-agent communication protocol, with shared state, typed actors, MCP, brokers, and HTTP compared. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/multi-agent-systems-in-2025-architecture-patterns-that-work/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/multi-agent-systems-in-2025-architecture-patterns-that-work/ Practical patterns for multi-agent systems in 2025 with runnable LangGraph and CrewAI snippets, plus the gotchas that bite teams in production. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/translating-business-impact-architecture-decisions/ Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/translating-business-impact-architecture-decisions/ Architecture decisions are business decisions in disguise. Here is how to write ADRs that hold up when the budget conversation arrives. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/when-pro-code-wins-over-low-code-decision-matrix/ Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/when-pro-code-wins-over-low-code-decision-matrix/ When pro-code beats low-code. A decision matrix on latency, consistency, complexity, audit, and ownership, with concrete thresholds for 2024. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/digital-twins-real-telemetry/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/digital-twins-real-telemetry/ Digital twins built on real telemetry, with state models, sync patterns and worthwhile use cases. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/iiot-reference-architecture-2024/ Mon, 05 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/iiot-reference-architecture-2024/ Reference IIoT architecture for 2024, edge to analytics, with the trade-offs that matter. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/llm-vendor-risk-failover-strategy/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/llm-vendor-risk-failover-strategy/ A failover playbook for LLM apps after the OpenAI weekend — multi-provider routing, abstraction layers, and what’s worth doing. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/repository-pattern-done-right-php-and-go/ Thu, 26 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/repository-pattern-done-right-php-and-go/ The repository pattern, demystified. When to use it, when not to, and the specific mistakes I made over ten years. Real examples in PHP 8.2 and Go 1.21. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/decoupling-laravel-from-eloquent-without-fighting-the-framework/ Mon, 23 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/decoupling-laravel-from-eloquent-without-fighting-the-framework/ How to decouple application code from Eloquent in Laravel 10 without ditching it. Mapping patterns, transaction boundaries, and the case for keeping Eloquent. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/dependency-injection-laravel-container-patterns/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/dependency-injection-laravel-container-patterns/ Practical Laravel 10 service container patterns: contextual bindings, scoped instances, and tagged services. With production examples and anti-patterns. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/domain-layer-purity-in-laravel-10/ Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/domain-layer-purity-in-laravel-10/ Building a real domain layer in Laravel 10 without Eloquent leaking through. Entities, value objects, and the discipline to keep them framework-free. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/ports-and-adapters-in-go-with-wire-and-fx/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/ports-and-adapters-in-go-with-wire-and-fx/ Hexagonal architecture in idiomatic Go 1.21. When to use Wire, when to use fx, and when to just write the wiring by hand. With production-tested patterns. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/hexagonal-architecture-explained-for-php-and-go-devs/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/hexagonal-architecture-explained-for-php-and-go-devs/ Hexagonal architecture, ports and adapters, explained without the dogma. With concrete PHP 8.2 and Go 1.21 code, and the parts I think Cockburn got right. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/clean-architecture-php-without-the-cult/ Thu, 05 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/clean-architecture-php-without-the-cult/ Clean Architecture in PHP without the dogma. Use cases, entities, and where to stop folder-splitting. A pragmatic guide from a Laravel 10 production codebase. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/upgrading-laravel-10-real-world-checklist/ Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/upgrading-laravel-10-real-world-checklist/ What actually breaks when upgrading a Laravel 9 app to Laravel 10 in production. PHP 8.1 floor, native types, deprecations, and the migrations that bit me. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/clean-architecture-layers/ Fri, 03 Jun 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/clean-architecture-layers/ Four layers of Clean Architecture: domain, use case, adapter, infra. What goes where + dependency rule. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/why-clean-architecture-in-2022/ Wed, 01 Jun 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/why-clean-architecture-in-2022/ Clean Architecture in 2022: why now, what it buys, what it costs. Pragmatic take. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/shared-database-monolith-microservices/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/shared-database-monolith-microservices/ Sharing Postgres between monolith and microservices without coupling them. Schemas, roles, FK boundaries, ownership migration. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/microservice-boundaries-billing-module/ Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/microservice-boundaries-billing-module/ Drawing the boundary when extracting a billing module. Aggregate roots, event contracts, and the questions to answer before you write any code. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/monolith-to-first-go-microservice/ Mon, 10 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/monolith-to-first-go-microservice/ Carving the first Go microservice out of a PHP monolith. Pragmatic cutover, traffic shadowing, and the boring service to start with.