Engineering Strategy
Microservice Incident Response That Works
In microservices, the hard part of incident response is locating the fault across services. The triage order, the tools, and how to stop cascades fast.
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Microservices
Modular Monolith vs Microservices: How to Choose
Modular monolith vs microservices: start with a modular monolith and extract services only when a real force demands it. The decision framework and the signals.
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Shared Libraries in Microservices: The Real Cost
Shared libraries in microservices promise reuse but quietly recouple services through a versioned dependency. When they help, when they hurt, and the rules.
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Breaking Service Dependency Cycles
Service dependency cycles make microservices impossible to deploy, test, or reason about in isolation. How to detect them and four ways to break them.
Distributed Systems
Timeout Budgets Across Service Chains
A timeout budget is one deadline split across a service chain so the whole request fails fast instead of piling up doomed work. How to set and propagate it.
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Bounded Contexts in Real Microservice Systems
Bounded contexts are how you find real microservice boundaries: split where the same word means different things. The practical guide, not the DDD theory.
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Service Ownership Boundaries in Microservices
Service ownership boundaries decide whether microservices scale your org or stall it. Draw them by data ownership and team, not by code size. The rules.
Distributed Systems
gRPC Across Languages: Production Lessons
gRPC across languages promises neutral RPC. In production the gaps are real: load balancing, deadlines, status codes, and schema evolution. The fixes.
Distributed Systems
Building Rust Hot Path Services in Production
Rust hot path services hold their latency target only if you set 4 defaults right: panic strategy, allocator, Tokio runtime, and bounds. The production checklist.
Microservices
Why Language Boundaries Break Polyglot Microservices
Polyglot microservices break at the seams, not inside services. The 5 cross-language failure modes (deadlines, cancellation, errors, types, connections) and fixes.
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FastAPI Microservices Architecture: A Production Guide
FastAPI microservices done right: where they belong in a polyglot fleet, the async model that decides performance, and the worker math most teams skip.
Distributed Systems
Go vs Rust for Microservices: When to Choose Which
Go vs Rust for microservices: use Go by default, reach for Rust only on hot paths where tail latency or memory is a measured need. The decision framework.