System design: reliability, data consistency, deployments and where to draw service boundaries.
Microservices solve organizational problems at a real operational cost. Why a well-structured monolith is usually the better start, and the signals that it's time to split.
Every network call will eventually fail or hang. Here's how to keep one slow dependency from taking your whole service down with it.
Why 'save to the database, then publish an event' quietly loses data, and how the outbox pattern makes events as reliable as your database.
Renaming a column shouldn't need a maintenance window. How to change a live database in small, reversible steps while old and new code run side by side.
