How Domain-Driven Design Fails in Practice
Why the gap between DDD theory and practice reveals more about organizations than architecture.
Why Your Caching Strategy Is Backwards
Most caching optimizes for hits while ignoring what happens when caches miss—and that's where systems actually fail.
The Queue Architecture That Prevents Data Loss
Why exactly-once delivery is a myth and how idempotent design gives you something better
Designing Systems That Survive Your Departure
Architecture endures when context survives the people who created it
Why Feature Flags Are Architecture Decisions
Feature flags aren't just deployment tools—they're architectural decisions that shape how your system evolves and fails.
The Real Cost of Eventual Consistency
Eventual consistency trades user trust for scalability—here's how to minimize the cost.
Why Your Microservices Need a Monolith Platform
The shared infrastructure foundation that transforms microservices from duplicated chaos into focused, autonomous teams building business value.
The Database Per Service Trap Nobody Warns You About
Why strict database isolation creates expensive distributed problems that your monolith solved with a single query
Event Sourcing Demystified: When It Solves Real Problems
A practical framework for evaluating whether event sourcing's complexity earns its place in your architecture
Why Your API Versioning Strategy Will Fail
Most API versioning fails because it treats symptoms instead of preventing the disease of breaking changes through evolutionary design
The Hidden Architecture Behind Every Successful Migration
Master the architectural patterns that transform high-risk system migrations into controlled, reversible transitions with minimal business disruption.
The Architecture Review Nobody Wants But Everyone Needs
Transform dreaded architecture reviews into collaborative sessions that teams actually request by focusing on risk, questions, and actionable outcomes.
Why Monoliths Outperform Microservices for Most Teams
Most teams pay the microservices tax without receiving the benefits—here's how to know if you're one of them
How Netflix Architects for Failure
Why the best architectures assume everything will break—and design systems that keep working anyway.