Microservices
Modular Monolith vs Microservices: How to Choose
Modular monolith vs microservices: start with a modular monolith and extract services only when a real force demands it. The decision framework and the signals.
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Service boundaries, gRPC, event-driven architecture, Kafka, and the organizational physics of polyglot platforms.
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Shared Libraries in Microservices: The Real Cost
Shared libraries in microservices promise reuse but quietly recouple services through a versioned dependency. When they help, when they hurt, and the rules.
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Breaking Service Dependency Cycles
Service dependency cycles make microservices impossible to deploy, test, or reason about in isolation. How to detect them and four ways to break them.
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Bounded Contexts in Real Microservice Systems
Bounded contexts are how you find real microservice boundaries: split where the same word means different things. The practical guide, not the DDD theory.
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Service Ownership Boundaries in Microservices
Service ownership boundaries decide whether microservices scale your org or stall it. Draw them by data ownership and team, not by code size. The rules.
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Why Language Boundaries Break Polyglot Microservices
Polyglot microservices break at the seams, not inside services. The 5 cross-language failure modes (deadlines, cancellation, errors, types, connections) and fixes.
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FastAPI Microservices Architecture: A Production Guide
FastAPI microservices done right: where they belong in a polyglot fleet, the async model that decides performance, and the worker math most teams skip.