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Microservices Won’t Save You: The Hard Lessons from Shopify’s Modular Monolith and Discord’s ScyllaDB Migration

A deep dive into real-world system evolution, including Shopify’s journey with a modular monolith and Discord’s move from Cassandra to ScyllaDB, revealing practical trade-offs in scalability and maintainability.

#case-studies#database-migration#microservices...

microservices

The Microservices Refactoring Trap: Why In-Process Evolution Beats Cross-Service Coordination

Challenging the core microservices promise by demonstrating how modular monoliths enable faster, safer refactoring at a fraction of the coordination cost.

#microservices#refactoring

backend

Peak Backend Architecture: Why Modular Monoliths Are Eating Microservices’ Lunch

The backend architecture wars are cooling down as senior engineers converge on a pragmatic ‘Golden Stack’, modular monoliths first, microservices only when necessary. Here’s what the data actually says about this paradigm shift.

#backend#ddd#microservices

clean-code

SOLID Principles in 2026: Why Your Microservices Architecture is Quietly Betraying Uncle Bob

A critical examination of whether the decades-old SOLID principles still apply to contemporary software systems, especially in the context of microservices, serverless, and reactive architectures.

#clean-code#microservices#serverless...

characterization-testing

Legacy Rewrites Don’t Fail From Bad Code, They Fail From Ego

The real reason your monolith rewrite is paralyzing your team? You haven’t defined what ‘working’ actually means. Here’s how teams safely migrate critical systems without losing their minds (or their customers’ money).

#characterization-testing#legacy-code#microservices...

compliance

Why FinTech’s Microservices Obsession is a Compliance Time Bomb

A consulting perspective on how regulatory requirements force architectural discipline that challenges conventional microservices wisdom, and why that’s actually a good thing.

#compliance#Fintech#microservices...

microservices

The Microservices Tax: Why Amazon’s 90% Cost Cut Should Be Your Wake-Up Call

Early microservices adoption imposes a hidden architectural tax that small teams can’t afford. Real data shows monoliths outperform microservices for teams under 10 developers, and even Amazon is reversing course.

#microservices#monoliths#software-architecture

blast-radius

Blast Radius Analysis in Multi-Repo Microservices: The Silent Operational Crisis That Tools Can’t Fix

The gap between microservices theory and reality leaves teams flying blind when changes ripple across distributed codebases. Here’s why even the best tooling fails, and what actually works.

#blast-radius#devops#impact-analysis...

microservices

Why SQLite’s 590x Test-to-Code Ratio Proves Monoliths Are Inevitable in Resource-Constrained Environments

SQLite’s monolithic architecture and obsessive testing regimen reveal why distributed systems often create more problems than they solve when resources are tight.

#microservices#monolithic-architecture#software-testing...

microservices

Twilio Segment’s $3.2B Architecture Rebellion: Why They Killed Their Microservices

An in-depth analysis of Twilio Segment’s controversial decision to abandon microservices for a monolith, exploring how 140+ services became a distributed nightmare and what the reversal taught the industry about architectural dogma.

#microservices#monolith#segment...

ci/cd

Backstage is Overkill, But Your Microservices Docs Are Still a Disaster

The brutal truth about documentation drift in microservices: why centralized portals fail small teams and how a CI/CD approach to docs actually works.

#ci/cd#developer-experience#documentation...

hiring

The Junior Hiring Crisis: How Over-Engineering Architectures Exclude New Developers

How complex system designs create barriers for junior engineers entering the field, exacerbating hiring challenges

#hiring#junior-developers#kubernetes...

backend

The Single-Binary Backend Revolt: How Pocketbase is Killing Cloud Complexity

Pocketbase delivers an entire realtime backend in one executable file, challenging the microservices dogma

#backend#development#microservices...

event-driven

Versioning Strategies for Events: Date-Tied, Semantic, or Schema Registry?

A brutally honest comparison of event versioning tactics, how teams actually manage schema evolution in production, and why most approaches create more problems than they solve.

#event-driven#microservices#schema-registry...

clean-code

The Architecture Wars: Hexagonal vs Clean vs Onion – Which One Actually Future-Proofs Your Code?

A no-BS breakdown of three architectural heavyweights fighting for your next project’s soul

#clean-code#microservices#Scalability...

architecture

Your Microservices Obsession is Killing Your Startup

A reality check for developers who reach for distributed systems before they’ve earned them

#architecture#microservices#monolithic...

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

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

event-driven

Beyond the Tutorials: What Really Happens with the Outbox Pattern

The outbox pattern promises atomic consistency in distributed systems, but the implementation reality is messier than most tutorials admit. Here’s what actually happens when you combine Go, Postgres, and the complexities of real-world event delivery.

#event-driven#golang#microservices...

database scaling

Database Scaling Isn’t Magic. It’s a Tax on Simplicity

The 10 database scaling techniques every architect must master, and why most teams implement them too late, too wrong, and at too high a cost.

#database scaling#microservices#polyglot persistence...

Azure

Scaling to 10 Million Users on Azure: The Microservices Mistake Nobody Admits

Why premature microservices and over-engineering doom Azure scaling efforts, real lessons from hitting 10 million users

#Azure#Cloud Scaling#devops...

distributed-systems

Event-Driven Architecture: The Distributed Disaster Waiting to Happen

Why your ‘loosely coupled’ event system is probably a tightly coupled mess in disguise

#distributed-systems#event-driven-architecture#microservices...

architecture

Microservices Database Sharing: The Architectural Taboo That Won’t Die

Why sharing databases between microservices remains the industry’s most tempting sin, and what actually happens when teams ignore the golden rule

#architecture#databases#distributed-systems...

architecture

Microservices to Monolith Reversion: When Architectural Heresy Pays Off

Developer confessions from microservices back to monolith. The journey from distributed complexity to strategic simplicity

#architecture#microservices#monolith...