Introduction Many teams start with a monolithic application because it is simple and fast to build. However, as features grow...

Introduction Testing real application behavior is difficult when relying on mocks or in-memory databases. Although unit tests are useful, they...

Introduction As microservices grow in number, keeping track of service locations becomes a significant challenge. Hardcoding URLs is fragile, especially...

Introduction Caching is one of the most effective ways to speed up applications. Instead of hitting the database for every...

Introduction REST has been the default API style for many years, but modern applications increasingly require more flexibility in how...

Introduction As applications grow, a single unified data model becomes a bottleneck. Read operations often require different data shapes than...

Introduction Modern applications require robust authentication and authorization. Instead of managing passwords and user sessions manually, developers increasingly rely on...

Introduction When building microservices, routing requests correctly is one of the most important pieces of the architecture. Instead of calling...

Introduction As applications scale, traditional thread-per-request servers struggle under heavy load. This is especially true for I/O-heavy systems, API aggregators,...