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Mycel is a declarative microservice framework for Go. You don't write the service — you declare it i...


Observability is the ability to understand the internal state of a system from its external outputs....


tickr is a Postgres-backed outbox + worker pool for Go. You enqueue messages in the same transaction...


Microservices Patterns: A Practical Guide to Choosing the Right Architecture Most teams...


A practical, production-focused guide to using Go context correctly for cancellation, timeouts, requ...


A few weeks ago I published an article about an event-driven order pipeline I built in .NET. A CTO.....


It is three in the morning, the on-call rotation is awake, and the logs scroll past at a rate the ey...


Three architecture options, one honest breakdown. When each makes sense, when it doesn't, and the mi...


Retries are one of those features that almost every distributed system eventually gets. Downstream....


A walkthrough of RepoOrch — an open-source Claude Code plugin that turns a multi-repo workspace into...


While covering the Outbox Pattern in my earlier article on CQRS, I realized there was much more...


Over the last few days I went deep into one of those deceptively simple auth problems that turns int...


When we talk about Istio or Envoy, we often hear terms like "dynamic configuration" and "control...


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Notifications start small. "Send the user an email when their order ships." A function. A library......


We are living in an era of Complexity Tax. Many people envision "God AI" is the future. That every....


Your checkout service calls a 3rd-party fraud-check API on every order. That API just started timing...


Java remains one of the most widely used programming languages in enterprise development thanks to.....


our mobile app talks to 3 backend services directly. A 4th one ships next sprint. The mobile team i...


Production benchmarks reveal the surprising winner in the battle for microsecond-level RPC...


Mahdi Shamlou here. if you’ve read my OWASP Top 10 or SQL/NoSQL injection articles, you know I take...


One of Istio's most powerful features is the ability to configure circuit breaking and rate limiting...


If you've worked with Istio, you've probably heard terms like "control plane," "data plane," "Pilot,...


For years, Spring Boot was my go-to for Java microservices. It worked, so I didn't question it. But....