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Inheritance Isn't Dead - Your Payment Gateway Proves It

Why composition over inheritance dogma fails in real payment systems, and how to blend both approaches for practical software design.

#design-patterns#composition#inheritance...

microservices

Microservices to Monolith Reversion: When Architectural Heresy Pays Off

Developer confessions from microservices back to monolith. The journey from distributed complexity to strategic simplicity

#microservices#monolith#architecture...

semver

Semantic Versioning Is Lying to You

Why semver's clean rules break down against messy reality, creating emotional version numbers that don't reflect actual effort

#semver#versioning#packaging

design-patterns

The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work Is Actually Insanely Hard

Why chasing architectural simplicity requires more engineering discipline than building complex distributed systems

#design-patterns#simplicity#engineering

architecture

Vertical Slices vs CQRS: The Architecture Debate That's Mostly Semantics

Cutting through the buzzword fog to reveal why these patterns are more similar than different and how semantic diffusion corrupts good ideas.

#architecture#patterns#cqrs...

postgresql

Your Elasticsearch Cluster is Probably Overkill

Instacart's move to PostgreSQL for search infrastructure reveals uncomfortable truths about search engine complexity versus relational database maturity.

#postgresql#elasticsearch#search-infrastructure...

AI-Coded Monoliths: How Copilot Accelerates Architectural Bankruptcy

Generative coding tools boost velocity while quietly eroding software architecture, creating monoliths faster than ever before. The data reveals a paradox: more code, more technical debt.

#AI#software-architecture#technical-debt...

api

API-First Design: The Consumer-Last Trap

How API-first principles backfire when developers forget who actually uses their interfaces

#api#software-architecture#developer-experience

distributed-systems

Beyond the Tutorials: What Really Happens with the Outbox Pattern

The outbox pattern promises atomic consistency in distributed systems, but the implementation reality is messier than most tutorials admit. Here's what actually happens when you combine Go, Postgres, and the complexities of real-world event delivery.

#distributed-systems#golang#postgresql...

cloud

Why Cloud Migration Often Fails

IT veterans reveal what they'd do differently after costly cloud migrations - from 5x timeline blowouts to $500K reversals.

#cloud#aws#enterprise-architecture

RAG

The Harsh Reality of Enterprise RAG: "Clean" Documents Are Actually Trash

Why document quality detection, not vector embeddings, is the make-or-break factor for enterprise RAG systems processing 10K-50K+ documents

#RAG#enterprise-ai#document-processing...

event-driven-architecture

Event-Driven Architecture: The Distributed Disaster Waiting to Happen

Why your 'loosely coupled' event system is probably a tightly coupled mess in disguise

#event-driven-architecture#distributed-systems#microservices...

event-sourcing

Event Sourcing in Finance: The Architecture That Developers Love to Hate

Debunking the myth that event sourcing is easier for financial systems despite its audit trail benefits versus CRUD familiarity

#event-sourcing#financial-systems#architecture...

microservices

Microservices Database Sharing: The Architectural Taboo That Won't Die

Why sharing databases between microservices remains the industry's most tempting sin, and what actually happens when teams ignore the golden rule

#microservices#architecture#databases...

sase

SASE Vendors Are Lying About Their Security Stacks

A brutal breakdown of how Zscaler, Palo Alto, and Cloudflare actually perform when real traffic hits their global PoPs, and why pricing transparency is a myth.

#sase#network-security#zero-trust...

microservices

SNS vs Dedicated Services. CAP theorem tradeoffs

The brutal CAP theorem tradeoffs between AWS SNS/SQS and custom event services that nobody talks about

#microservices#aws#architecture...

The 3-Tier Architecture Is Dying, And AI Is Holding the Smoking Gun

AI in browsers and edge computing is gutting the classic presentation→logic→database stack. Here's what's replacing it, and why your next architecture diagram will look like a distributed neural net.

#AI#edge computing#web architecture...

legacy-systems

The Legacy System Trap: Why Modernization Projects Fail More Often Than They Succeed

An unflinching look at the brutal realities of legacy system modernization, from data migration nightmares to organizational resistance that derails even the best-laid plans.

#legacy-systems#modernization#enterprise-architecture...