Background Jobs in a Monolith: In-Process vs a Separate Queue
Compare in-process workers, a database-backed job queue and a message broker for monolith background jobs, with retries, idempotency, scheduling and scaling signals.
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How to Extract a Service from a Monolith: Picking the First Seam
Learn how to extract your first service from a monolith by choosing a clean seam, untangling data, cutting over safely, and budgeting for platform work.
13 min read
Monolith Caching Strategies: In-Process vs Shared Cache
Compare in-process and shared caches in a monolith, covering hit rates under scaling, invalidation, cache stampede fixes, two-tier design and what to measure.
13 min read
Refactor a Monolith with Feature Toggles, Not Long-Lived Branches
Why long-lived branches fail large monolith refactors, and how branch by abstraction plus short-lived feature toggles enable safe incremental refactoring.
17 min read
Monolith Performance: Find and Fix the Real Bottleneck First
Learn to baseline, trace and profile a slow monolith, fix N+1 queries and database hot paths, and choose a caching strategy before considering a rewrite.
18 min read
Module Boundaries in a Monolith: Enforce Them with Code
Learn how to enforce module boundaries in a monolith using dependency rules, package visibility, build units, and architecture tests that run in CI.
13 min read
When to Split a Monolith: Signals, Prerequisites, and Trade-offs
Learn when to split a monolith: how to confirm scaling bottlenecks, team contention, and deploy coupling, what to try first, and how to extract safely.
14 min read
How to Scale a Monolith Before You Split It into Microservices
Learn to scale a monolith by profiling bottlenecks, then applying vertical scaling, stateless horizontal scaling, caching, read replicas and async jobs.
17 min read
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.
12 min read
Monolith vs Microservices Cost: Where the Money Actually Goes
Learn how monolith vs microservices cost breaks down across infrastructure, operational overhead and team time, and how to find your break-even point.
13 min read
Database Connection Pool Sizing for Monoliths Under Heavy Load
Size database connection pools from real database capacity and a global connection budget, tune HikariCP, use PgBouncer, and diagnose connection exhaustion.
14 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