How to Extract a Service from a Monolith: Picking the First Seam
Learn how to extract your first service from a monolith by choosing a clean seam, untangling data, cutting over safely, and budgeting for platform work.
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microservices
Transactional Outbox Pattern: Reliable Events from PostgreSQL
Solve the dual write problem in PostgreSQL with the transactional outbox pattern: table design, polling and CDC relays, idempotent consumers and ordering.
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Service Discovery in Microservices: How Load Balancing Really Works
Learn how service discovery and load balancing fit together in microservices: DNS, Kubernetes Services, client-side balancing, proxies, and rollout pitfalls.
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The Majestic Monolith: A Guide to Convention Over Distribution
Learn what a majestic monolith is, how to enforce module boundaries in one deployable, scale it, and recognize the signals that justify extracting a service.
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What a Microservices-Ready Monolith Actually Means in Code
Learn how to test whether a monolith is microservices-ready: data ownership, explicit contracts, enforced boundaries, cross-module transactions and a scoring checklist.
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Service Mesh: Do You Actually Need One? A Practical Guide
Learn what a service mesh does, how mTLS between services works, Istio vs Linkerd, real costs and trade-offs, and when Kubernetes alone is enough.
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Feature Flags in Microservices: Safe Rollouts Without Redeploys
How feature flags work across microservices: evaluation architecture, cross-service consistency, kill switches, safe defaults, progressive delivery and flag cleanup.
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How to Reduce Coordination Overhead Between Service Teams
Reduce coordination overhead between service teams by fixing ownership boundaries, interface contracts, and change visibility instead of meeting hygiene.
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Service Discovery in Microservices: DNS, Registries and Kubernetes
Learn how service discovery works with DNS, service registries and Kubernetes Services, and how to choose by staleness, failure and coupling trade-offs.
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Release Management Services: Coordinating Versions Across Many Services
Learn how to coordinate releases across services with contract-level version compatibility, expand/contract changes, safe rollbacks, and when release trains help.
15 min read
Eventual Consistency in Practice: Guarantees Across Services
Learn which consistency models your services need, how to fix dual writes with outbox and CDC, build read-your-writes, run sagas, and monitor staleness.
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Backend for Frontend Pattern: When a BFF Beats a Shared API
Learn how the backend for frontend pattern works, how a BFF differs from an API gateway, how to implement aggregation safely, and when to skip it.
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