Software Architecture
Eventual Consistency: What It Actually Feels Like in Production
What eventual consistency means in practice - the real bugs it causes, why distributed systems accept it, and how to design around it instead of fighting it.
Software Architecture
Microservices Are a Solved Problem? Not Quite.
A decade after microservices became mainstream, the pattern is well-understood in theory and still routinely misapplied in practice. Here is what the field actually knows and where teams still get it wrong.
Software Architecture
Why System Design Is More Important Than Ever
When AI can write the code, the decisions that matter most are the ones that happen before the code is written. System design was always important. Now it is the primary leverage point.
Software Architecture
API Design Principles That Age Well
The design decisions that make APIs a pleasure to work with years later - consistency, clear contracts, thoughtful versioning, and the mistakes that are expensive to undo.
Software Architecture
Monolith vs Microservices: The Honest Tradeoffs
What microservices actually cost, what problems they actually solve, and how to think about the decision instead of treating it as a default choice.
Software Architecture
SOLID Principles Through Real Code, Not Definitions
Five principles that show up in every serious codebase - explained through violations you will recognize, not textbook abstractions.
Software Architecture
Design Patterns You Will Actually Encounter: Factory, Strategy, Observer
Three patterns that appear constantly in real codebases - what problem each solves, what the structure looks like, and where you have already seen them.
Software Architecture
Design Patterns, Part 2: Decorator, Adapter, Command
Three more patterns from the everyday toolkit - adding behavior without inheritance, bridging incompatible interfaces, and treating actions as objects.