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Some architecture principles should be rules. Others should be guidelines.original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Mishandling concurrency is one of the most common root causes of software bugsoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
At what point does better performance stop being worth it?original ↗
9 Sept 2026
Sometimes good engineering looks like over-engineeringoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
AI makes code cheap to create, not cheap to ownoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2026
“We can’t run locally” is usually a design smelloriginal ↗
20 Aug 2026
To make a service more stable, eliminate dependenciesoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2026
Caching isn’t hard. Some data is hard to cacheoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2026
The closer to the edge, the more stable a platform must beoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2026
Sometimes the most resilient thing a system can do isn’t retryoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2026
Should retries and timeouts live in your application or your service mesh?original ↗
16 Jul 2026
Need to migrate from one database to another without downtime?original ↗
9 Jul 2026
Glue Services: Part Two — Data Synchronizationoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2026
When modernizing legacy systems, don’t be afraid to build glue servicesoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2026
Coding agents can’t see your architecture diagrams—fix thatoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2026
Most teams put low-level architecture in the wrong placeoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2026
Your coding agent is missing one thing: architectural contextoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2026
Health-check the listener your gRPC traffic actually usesoriginal ↗
28 May 2026
Weighted load balancing has saved me more times than I can countoriginal ↗
21 May 2026
YOLO Is a Terrible Strategy for Validating Production Changesoriginal ↗
14 May 2026
Deterministic routing is one of the most effective ways distributed systems reduce consistency problems at scaleoriginal ↗
7 May 2026
When you think of microservices, you probably think of centralized shared services. But there's another valid pattern that is rarely discussedoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2026
Are you using traffic mirroring in production? If not, try it out.original ↗
23 Apr 2026
Agent Skills Are Becoming the Best Way to Capture Institutional Knowledgeoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2026
Saved Prompts Are Dead. Agent Skills Are the Future.original ↗
9 Apr 2026
Generating Code Faster Is Only Valuable If You Can Validate Every Change With Confidenceoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2026

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Message queues are great for handing off work, but how do you know the work actually happens?original ↗
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