Can you recommend literature and sources on design and architecture?

Question

Software design

Good afternoon, share information, what do you use in designing your applications or systems? How do you approach new challenges? What best practices do you use? What literature and blogs do you read to develop in this direction. For example, I consider such sites on the topic https://refactoring.guru/ru or https://www.nginx.com/blog/introduction-to-microse...

Answer 1

As you were taught in your first year - if you don't know how to program - draw a flowchart. It's a joke, of course, except for the university, I never drew a flowchart.
Seriously, I do web development and sometimes there are complex specific tasks, just "break your brain", then I use database modeling. At the institute, it was an ErWin product, but I get by with paper and a pen. The point is to put the task in a data model, it structures thoughts very much, and when all the necessary data has settled down on paper, everything usually becomes clear, and it is immediately clear what needs to be done and how. I have enough