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A summary of near past and near future events we have attended or will attend.
Insights
Notes from the work.
Ideas and lessons from building software: understanding business domains, designing systems, testing behavior, and making change manageable.
The archive covers GraphQL, event sourcing, collaborative discovery, and software delivery, all of which inform our intelligent automation work.
Engineering articles
Explore the archive by topic or publication date. Older articles retain their original context; product references and technical details may reflect the time they were written.
Event Storming: The Visual Requirements Facilitation Technique to Accelerate Software Design and Development
An introduction to the fun and effective workshop technique that unlocks heightened levels of collaboration across silo and specialization boundaries.
Introducing GraphQL Schema Storming
How to annotate user experiences in a collaborative fashion to facilitate and accelerate GraphQL schema design.
Escape and Xolvio Introduce GraphQL Security Review and Remediation Services
Announcing our official partnership with Escape to help teams secure their GraphQL APIs.
How to Move from BFFs to GraphQL Federation
An optimal migration path of a scaled BFF architecture to a federated Apollo GraphQL API.
Event Sourcing: the Future-Proof Design Pattern for 2023 and Beyond
How to unlock your system’s scalability and maintainability for the demands of modern age business.
Event Storm to Production Supergraph: a Domain-Driven Design Approach to GraphQL
Or how to tidy up your system’s domains, so that you get a supergraph schema design for free.
Apollo GraphQL and Xolvio introduce supergraph professional services
Announcing our official partnership with Apollo GraphQL to help companies scale their supergraphs.
Digital Acceleration: The Single Biggest Business Benefit of GraphQL
How to pitch GraphQL adoption to your leaders whether they are developers or not.
The real story behind Apollo GraphQL
An interview with Apollo CEO, Geoff Schmidt, diving deeper into the origins of the supergraph.
5 insights on GraphQL adoption in the enterprise
What I learned from the Humans in the Graph roundtable at the GraphQL Summit.
Why Apollo's supergraph announcement is a pivotal moment for GraphQL
Tracing back the origins of the Apollo GraphQL platform from an insider’s view to uncover a broader perspective on what’s to come.
Why software architecture matters to you and your customers
Why non-developers should care about good software design, even if they can’t see it.
The Role of Technical Architecture in Digital Transformation
Notes on the importance of a flexible technical architecture and its relation to organizational structure in modern-day business.
Enterprise software: when to build instead of buy
While you definitely don’t want to reinvent the wheel by investing into custom software to replace robust SaaS alternatives, there are times when building your own solution is the way to go.
The State of Integration Diagram
Or how to create a visual that allows you to see the work in progress and risks of a complex system in a single glance.
The Perfect Test Automation Strategy
So how might one define what a perfect test automation strategy is?
Enterprise-Grade Contentful App Pipelines
How do we create a content management strategy that scales across distributed development teams without compromising quality and speed?
Federated Design Systems with Storybook
Storybook is a fantastic tool that allows developers to build and test components in isolation
How to Design and Build a Hyper-Fast Test Automation Stack
What makes a good test automation stack, and how you can approach creating one for yourself.
Is Your Testing Strategy Back-to-Front?
More and more teams recognize the need for an effective full-cycle test strategy and have selected great tools and techniques, which is awesome!
Zero-Bug Software Development
Is it really practical to aspire to have a Zero-Bug policy? And is that even desirable?
Preventing Software Bugs from Ever Occurring
If you understand bugs, there is no need to fight them.
What Is Quality?
there is an intrinsic relationship between Quality, Value and… Love!
The Forgotten First Principle of Software Delivery
Most teams optimize for flow but overlook quality—the forgotten first principle of software delivery that ultimately determines your team's long-term success.
Related reading: SpecDriven
Sam Hatoum's independent publication explores the history and practice of specification and software delivery, including the questions raised by building with AI.