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The Architect’s Calculator: Debunking Multi-Cloud Mythology

over-engineering

Featured

The Architect’s Calculator: Debunking Multi-Cloud Mythology

Using Probability x Impact math to call out over-engineering excuses and justify architectural complexity

#over-engineering#risk-assessment#technical-debt

arc42

Q42 Exposed: Is ISO25010 Finally Obsolete?

The arc42 team’s alternative quality model challenges decades of software quality dogma with 8 pragmatic attributes that might actually get used.

#arc42#iso25010#q42...

data-engineering

Database Design: Integrity Clashes With Performance

The eternal database battle, seen through a librarian’s weary eyes, how to choose between clean data and fast queries

#data-engineering#data-modeling#database-design...

aws

When DNS Goes Down: How to Weather the Cloud-Storm

Strategies for surviving DNS outages when everything breaks.

#aws#cloud-resilience#devops...

architecture

Your Kafka Isn’t a Database: Stop Pretending It Is

Why storing Kafka messages in databases for months is architectural madness and what to do instead

#architecture#data-retention#kafka...

database

91% of Enterprises Rely on PostgreSQL for 99.99% Uptime, But 56% Still Experience Downtime

Examining the use of PostgreSQL in mission-critical applications with 99.99% uptime requirements, including architectural considerations, maintenance strategies, and performance optimization techniques.

#database#high-availability#mission-critical...

CRDT

Last Write Wins Isn’t a Feature, It’s a Bug in Your Whiteboard

Why most real-time collaboration tools get conflict resolution wrong, and how CRDTs, OT, and architectural pragmatism are rewriting the rules.

#CRDT#distributed systems#operational transformation...

cloud-native

Sidecar Patterns: The Silent Performance Tax in Distributed Systems

How the sidecar pattern, often hailed as a microservice best practice, can silently drain system performance , and when it’s truly worth the trade-offs.

#cloud-native#distributed systems#microservices

ai-integration

Your LLM Integration Architecture Is Probably Wrong

Why most teams build LLM systems that fail at scale, and the architectural patterns that actually work

#ai-integration#architecture#LLM...

architecture

Event Sourcing in Finance: The Architecture That Developers Love to Hate

Debunking the myth that event sourcing is easier for financial systems despite its audit trail benefits versus CRUD familiarity

#architecture#audit-trails#crud...

Android 15

Android 15’s 16KB Page Mandate: Why Your Flutter App Just Got Faster (And Your Kotlin One Might Crash)

Google’s hidden memory overhaul forces a reckoning across mobile frameworks. Here’s how Flutter, React Native, and Kotlin/JVM are handling the 16KB page requirement , and why your app’s startup time might suddenly improve (or implode).

#Android 15#Flutter#Kotlin...

architecture

SNS vs Dedicated Services. CAP theorem tradeoffs

The brutal CAP theorem tradeoffs between AWS SNS/SQS and custom event services that nobody talks about

#architecture#aws#microservices