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.
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distributed systems
Monolith Architecture: Why It Still Wins for Most Teams
Learn what microservices really cost, how to build and scale a modular monolith, and the concrete signals that justify extracting a service.
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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.
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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.
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Modular Monolith vs Microservices: Decision Criteria That Hold Up
Learn when a modular monolith beats microservices, how to enforce module boundaries, and which team size, deployment, and scaling needs justify a split.
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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.
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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
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