The Great Technology Replacement Cycle: Why Legacy Systems Win
Core: In 2008, we built a new payment system to replace our “outdated” Java monolith from 2003. It was …
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Building Microservices: Lessons From A Decade of Distributed Systems
Core: Microservices are deceptively simple in theory but extraordinarily complex in practice. After a decade building …
Read more →Navigating Career Transitions in Tech: Moving From Individual Contributor To Leadership
Core: Becoming a leader feels like a promotion but is actually a role change. The skills that made you excellent as an …
Read more →Open Source Maintenance: Why It's Harder Than Building From Scratch
Core: Open source looks like a gift economy. People contribute for free. In reality, successful open source is backed by …
Read more →Scaling Databases: When Sharding, Replication, and Caching Become Necessary
Core: Most scaling discussions happen at the wrong scale. Teams implement sharding at 100GB when they should be at 10TB. …
Read more →The Docker Optimization Trap: When Containerization Makes Deployments Slower
Core: Docker promised to simplify deployments. We adopted it expecting 2-minute deploys. We got 12-minute deploys …
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