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Every component in a distributed system will eventually fail. The only question is whether your system was designed to handle that failure gracefully or to propagate it.
Read more“We hired contractors, but they work like full-time staff.” That sentence often sounds harmless—until you look at what it actually means.
Read moreMost Docker networking confusion comes from conflating three distinct namespaces: how containers reach each other, how the host reaches containers, and how containers reach the outside world. Once you separate those three, the rules become predictable.
Read moreEvent-driven architecture is genuinely powerful for the problems it fits. It is also one of the easiest patterns to apply incorrectly, producing systems that are hard to debug, hard to reason about, and fragile in non-obvious ways.
Read moreThe fat models, skinny controllers mantra fixed one problem and created another. Here is what the architecture actually looks like when you take it to its logical conclusion.
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