Cloud architecture
Cell-based architecture: buying down blast radius
Stop partial failures from spreading: blast-radius boundaries you can drain.
20 min read
Cloud architecture
Microservices or a modular monolith? The question to ask first
The distributed-systems tax, itemised — and when microservices actually justify it.
18 min read
Cloud architecture
AWS to GCP: what actually changes (and when not to move)
A re-platforming exercise with a service-mapping problem — including the case for staying.
20 min read
Cloud architecture
MongoDB in production: replication, failover and backups that hold up
Replica sets, write concerns and backups you have restored — the demo-to-production gap.
19 min read
Cloud architecture
Postgres or MongoDB? Choosing without the dogma
Choose by query pattern, not data model — the databases already converged.
19 min read
Cloud architecture
Do you actually need a service mesh?
Know whether you have the problems a mesh solves before taking on the ones it creates.
17 min read
Cloud architecture
Caching that helps: CDN, Redis and the thundering herd
Every cache layer from browser to database, with the incidents that live there.
20 min read