4 articles tagged with "microservices"
Everyone's rushing to microservices like it's Black Friday. After 7 years architecting systems from monoliths to distributed nightmares, I learned the hard way: sometimes the best architecture decision is to NOT split your app!
Your payment service is down and you're sending it 10,000 requests per second anyway. Brilliant! After 7 years architecting distributed systems, I learned that circuit breakers aren't optional - they're the difference between 'service is down' and 'entire platform is on fire'!
Your monolith is blocking like it's waiting for a bus that never comes. I moved our e-commerce backend to event-driven architecture and cut response times by 75% - here's how events changed everything!
Your microservices are talking to each other like chaos in a parking lot. Let's add an API Gateway to bring order - because nothing says 'I understand architecture' like a single entry point!