Architecture
GraphQL Federation: Splitting a Schema Without Splitting Teams
A practical guide to GraphQL Federation for breaking up a monolithic schema across services without duplicating resolvers or gateway logic.
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Microservices
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Architecture
The Transactional Outbox Pattern: Solving Dual-Write
How the transactional outbox pattern eliminates the dual-write problem and guarantees reliable event publishing without coupling database to broker.
·5 min read
Architecture
Microservices Architecture Patterns That Actually Work
Practical lessons from designing and operating microservices at scale: event-driven communication, service boundaries and the patterns that survived.
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Engineering
Testing Distributed Systems: Chaos, Contracts, Confidence
Practical testing for distributed architectures: contract testing between services, chaos engineering, integration design, and confidence without full E2E.
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Architecture
DDD in Practice: Bounded Contexts and Context Mapping
A practical guide to bounded contexts and context mapping in real applications: the strategic DDD patterns that stop domain models from rotting.
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Architecture
Strangler Fig: Migrating Monoliths Without a Rewrite
A practical guide to replacing legacy monoliths incrementally with the strangler fig pattern: routing strategies, data synchronization and rollback nets.
·6 min read
Architecture
Domain-Driven Design: Bounded Contexts in Practice
Apply DDD bounded contexts to real codebases: clear subdomain boundaries, context mapping between teams, and never sharing domain models across services.
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DevOps
Service Mesh Fundamentals: Istio and Linkerd in Practice
Service mesh architecture through Istio and Linkerd: traffic management, mutual TLS, observability and circuit breaking — and when it is not worth it.
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Engineering
Distributed Tracing: Following Requests Across Services
Implement distributed tracing across microservices with OpenTelemetry: context propagation, spans, sampling and the analysis that makes systems debuggable.
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Engineering
Designing Reliable Distributed Tracing Pipelines
Build production distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry: context propagation, sampling strategies, storage backends, log correlation and cardinality.
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Architecture
Domain-Driven Design Bounded Contexts in Practice
Practical strategies for identifying, implementing and integrating bounded contexts: context mapping, anti-corruption layers and shared kernels.
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Architecture
Strangler Fig: Incrementally Replacing Legacy Systems
How to apply the strangler fig pattern to migrate legacy systems to modern architectures without risky big-bang rewrites or extended downtime.
·5 min read