Opinions and hard-earned lessons about systems, teams, and engineering at scale.
Performance is a product feature There is a mental model that corrupts how most engineering teams think about performance: > "Functional requirements first. Non-functional requir…
Modular monolith vs microservices: a practical guide The debate usually goes like this: > "We should move to microservices. Monoliths don't scale." Or the backlash: > "We shoul…
Why most microservices architectures fail There is a certain irony to microservices. An architectural style explicitly designed to create autonomous, independently deployable serv…