The honest counterweight to MACH advocacy. Microservices are not a default — they are a trade-off. This post gives a concrete framework for deciding when a modular monolith is the right call. The ...
Netflix’s architecture is cited constantly as a microservices role model. This post gives a critical reading: what genuinely applies to other organizations, and what is specific to Netflix’s scale ...
Martin Fowler’s talks are required reading for anyone serious about microservices. This post distills the core ideas, adds commentary from real-world application, and highlights what has aged well ...
Service mesh configuration is where good theory meets painful practice. This post reviews KubeCon tutorials on Gateway API and service mesh routing, extracting the parts that matter for a typical M...
The H in MACH is frequently the least understood. This post explains why separating content storage from rendering unlocks omnichannel delivery and what tradeoffs it introduces.
The most dangerous migration strategy is the full rewrite. The Strangler Fig pattern gives a safe, incremental alternative that ships value continuously while the legacy system is progressively rep...
ACID transactions do not cross service boundaries. The Saga pattern is the standard answer — but most explanations skip the hard parts: failure compensation, idempotency, and event ordering. Why D...
OpenAPI is often treated as a documentation generator. This post argues it is a design artifact first — and shows how machine-readable API definitions enable mocking, automated testing, and SDK gen...
Conference talks sell microservices’ benefits. This post accounts for the full bill: increased operational complexity, testing overhead, and the organizational maturity required to make them work.
A companion deep-dive to our engineering debt post. The distributed monolith is the most common failure mode in microservices migrations — and it is invisible until it is expensive to fix. What Ma...