Legacy Monolith Migration: Strangler Fig and CDC
Stop trying to rewrite the monolith all at once. Decouple it incrementally using event streaming.
API Integration Patterns: Design for Change
API versioning is not about picking a URL scheme. It is about designing contracts that evolve without breaking …
Backend Performance: Latency Budgets and P99 Tuning
Average latency is a vanity metric. P99 is where your worst user experiences concentrate, and it compounds geometrically …
Resilience Patterns: Circuit Breakers, Bulkheads, Retries
Distributed systems fail differently than monoliths. Traditional error handling makes things worse. These patterns keep …
Microservice Communication Patterns: REST, gRPC, Events
Choosing between REST, gRPC, and event-driven messaging shapes your entire system's failure domain and coupling model.
Microservice Testing Pyramid: Contract, Component, and E2E Tests
The traditional testing pyramid breaks down with 30 independently deployed services.
Legacy API Modernization: Wrap Before You Rewrite
Rewriting legacy APIs from scratch fails more often than it succeeds. The facade pattern lets you modernize …
API Gateway Patterns: BFF, Rate Limiting, and Routing
API gateways are routing and auth proxies. Not a dumping ground for data aggregation and complex business rules.
Service Mesh Adoption: Istio vs Linkerd vs Cilium
A service mesh solves real networking problems but brings significant operational complexity.
Strangler Fig Pattern: De-Risk Legacy Cloud Migration
Big bang cloud migrations are how critical systems break during cutover. The strangler fig pattern is how you actually …