When to Kill a Microservice: Merging Back to a Monolith
This post is for tech leads and backend engineers who already run microservices and suspect one of them should not...
Microservices for a Small Team: The Case for Waiting
This post is for tech leads, founding engineers and CTOs of teams around five people who are deciding whether the...
Transactional Outbox Pattern: Events Without Two-Phase Commit
If your service saves a row and then tells the rest of the system about it, this post is for...
Backpressure Patterns: What to Do When Consumers Fall Behind
If you run a service where something produces work faster than something else can finish it, this post is for...
Kafka Consumer Lag: Reading It Before It Is an Outage
Kafka consumer lag is the number most teams graph and the number most teams misread. If you run Kafka consumers...
Retry Storms: How Your Retry Policy Caused the Outage
If an incident review at your company ever ended with “the database blipped for twenty seconds, so why were we...
API Gateway Patterns for SaaS Applications
Introduction In a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environment, multiple services often power different parts of the platform—user accounts, billing, analytics, feature flags,...
Circuit Breakers & Resilience Patterns in Microservices
In a microservices architecture, services depend on each other through network calls. When one service fails or slows down, that...
Building Scalable Microservices with Spring Cloud vs Node.js vs Python
Introduction When building microservices, choosing the right stack shapes everything from development velocity to operational complexity. In 2025, three stacks...