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Developer confessions from microservices back to monolith. The journey from distributed complexity to strategic simplicity
Cutting through the buzzword fog to reveal why these patterns are more similar than different and how semantic diffusion corrupts good ideas.
Debunking the myth that event sourcing is easier for financial systems despite its audit trail benefits versus CRUD familiarity
Why sharing databases between microservices remains the industry's most tempting sin, and what actually happens when teams ignore the golden rule
The brutal CAP theorem tradeoffs between AWS SNS/SQS and custom event services that nobody talks about
After analyzing 10+ years of tech lead failures and architectural disasters, these are the patterns that keep destroying software systems
Why embracing failure isn't just damage control, it's the foundation of modern distributed architecture
Why most teams build LLM systems that fail at scale, and the architectural patterns that actually work
How Andrej Karpathy's minimalist codebase demolishes bloated LLM infrastructure with brutal efficiency.
Why storing Kafka messages in databases for months is architectural madness and what to do instead
A reality check for developers who reach for distributed systems before they've earned them
