Microservice Service Boundaries: How to Draw Them Around Operations
Learn to draw microservice service boundaries by grouping subdomains around system operations, keeping aggregates whole and weighing coupling costs.
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What Are Microservices? Definition, Trade-offs and When to Use Them
Learn what microservices are, how independent deployment and data ownership work, what they cost to operate, and when a modular monolith is the better choice.
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Monorepo vs Polyrepo: A Decision Framework for Engineering Teams
Monorepo vs polyrepo compared by coordination cost: code sharing, tooling cost, ownership, deploys, a scoring framework, and how to migrate safely.
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Monolith vs Microservices Cost: Where the Money Actually Goes
Learn how monolith vs microservices cost breaks down across infrastructure, operational overhead and team time, and how to find your break-even point.
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Nx CI Optimization: Affected Builds and Remote Caching in Practice
Learn how nx affected and a correctly configured remote cache make CI faster, how to set inputs and outputs, and when caching gives stale or wrong results.
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Database Connection Pool Sizing for Monoliths Under Heavy Load
Size database connection pools from real database capacity and a global connection budget, tune HikariCP, use PgBouncer, and diagnose connection exhaustion.
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PostgreSQL Table Partitioning for Time-Series Data and Retention
Learn PostgreSQL range partitioning for time-series tables: pick granularity, verify partition pruning, automate partitions, and drop old data cheaply.
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PostgreSQL Autovacuum Tuning for Busy Tables: Stop Table Bloat
Learn how dead tuples cause table bloat, how autovacuum triggers, and how to set per-table thresholds and cost limits for high-churn PostgreSQL tables.
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Saga Pattern Orchestration vs Choreography: Choosing Where State Lives
Learn how sagas replace distributed transactions, how orchestration and choreography differ, how to design compensating actions, and when to use each.
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Postgres SKIP LOCKED Queue: Build a Job Queue with Row-Level Locking
Build a Postgres job queue with FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED step by step: schema, dequeue query, worker models, retries, idempotency, vacuum and trade-offs.
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Modular Monolith Architecture: Boundaries, Data Ownership and Rules
Learn how to design a modular monolith: drawing module boundaries, enforcing data ownership and dependency rules in CI, testing, and when to extract services.
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Microservices Configuration Management Beyond Environment Variables
Use env vars as the delivery contract and a versioned source of truth to manage shared configuration, validate at startup, and detect config drift.
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