Event-Driven Architecture: A Practical Guide for Backend Engineers
Learn when event-driven architecture fits, how brokers, outbox, idempotent consumers and sagas work, and when sync calls with ACID transactions are better.
13 min read
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Microservices
Service boundaries, communication, data ownership and the operational reality of distributed systems.
Microservices Anti-Patterns: Spotting the Distributed Monolith
Learn to diagnose the distributed monolith, shared databases and chatty services, and fix microservices anti-patterns with a remediation playbook ordered by cost.
13 min read
Service to Service Communication: Sync Calls vs Async Messaging
Choose between REST and messaging per interaction by weighing temporal, behavioral and data coupling, with resilience, consistency and cost trade-offs.
14 min read
Service Dependency Management for Dozens of Microservices
Build a trustworthy dependency graph from runtime traces and declared data, use it to gate risky changes, spot unhealthy coupling, and retire endpoints safely.
13 min read
API Gateway Pattern: What It Does and When You Need One
Learn what the API gateway pattern handles at the edge, how it differs from proxies and service meshes, when to adopt or skip it, and how to operate it.
13 min read
Database per Service: Data Ownership, Trade-offs and Pitfalls
Learn what database per service means, why shared databases break microservices, and how sagas, outboxes and read models handle the costs it brings.
14 min read
Microservice Service Boundaries: How to Draw Them Around Operations
Learn to draw microservice service boundaries by grouping subdomains around system operations, keeping aggregates whole and weighing coupling costs.
13 min read
What Are Microservices? Definition, Trade-offs and When to Use Them
Learn what microservices are, how independent deployment and data ownership work, what they cost to operate, and when a modular monolith is the better choice.
12 min read
Saga Pattern Orchestration vs Choreography: Choosing Where State Lives
Learn how sagas replace distributed transactions, how orchestration and choreography differ, how to design compensating actions, and when to use each.
14 min read
Microservices Configuration Management Beyond Environment Variables
Use env vars as the delivery contract and a versioned source of truth to manage shared configuration, validate at startup, and detect config drift.
18 min read
Microservice API Versioning: Strategies That Don't Break Consumers
Learn what counts as a breaking change, how to evolve microservice APIs compatibly, and when URI, header or media-type versioning is worth its cost.
18 min read
Microservices vs Monolith: How to Choose Without Regret
Learn when to use microservices vs a monolith, the forces behind the architecture decision, real costs of distributed systems, and a safe extraction path.
11 min read