#architecture#backend#opinionKafka Is Overkill for 90% of Teams150K orgs run Kafka. Most don't need it. Redpanda, NATS, and SQS handle 90% of messaging workloads at a fraction of the cost and complexity.28 aprel 202615 dəq.8
#architecture#microservices#startupMicroservices Ruined My Startup (Monolith Was the Answer)We had 4 engineers and 11 microservices. Here's how going back to a monolith cut our costs 95% and quadrupled our shipping speed.13 mart 202615 dəq.7
#devops#monitoring#architectureSLOs Changed How We Ship Software — Error Budgets, Burn Rates, and Why 99.99% Uptime Is a LieAWS hit 99.95% uptime in 2025. If the biggest cloud can't do four nines, your startup can't either. How SLOs and error budgets actually work.27 aprel 202617 dəq.5
#ai#llm#architectureAI Agents in Production: 94% Fail Before Week Two88% of AI agents never reach production. $547B in failed AI investments. The five gaps that kill agents and the architecture that actually survives.9 aprel 202615 dəq.5
#architecture#backend#performanceRate Limiting, Circuit Breakers, and Backpressure: The Three Patterns That Keep Distributed Systems AliveA missing timeout killed our checkout on Black Friday. Rate limiting, circuit breakers, and backpressure are the three patterns that prevent cascading failures.20 aprel 202621 dəq.4
#data-engineering#postgresql#backendChange Data Capture Replaced Our Entire ETL Pipeline — Debezium, Postgres, and the Death of BatchOur 15-minute batch ETL caused a billing incident. Debezium reading the Postgres WAL replaced the entire pipeline. CDC setup, consumer patterns, and production gotchas.19 aprel 202618 dəq.4
#database#postgresql#architectureDatabase Design Patterns Every Developer Should KnowFrom normalization to sharding, the patterns that matter in production and the mistakes that cost teams millions.5 aprel 202617 dəq.4
#software-engineering#opinion#careerTechnical Debt Is a Lie Engineers Tell ManagersTechnical debt costs $2.41T/year. But the metaphor itself is the problem. It's a communication failure, not a code problem. Here's what to say instead.11 aprel 202615 dəq.3
#backend#architecture#typescriptTemporal for Backend Developers: Durable Execution Makes Complex Backends BoringIf a server dies mid-workflow, Temporal resumes exactly where it left off. $5B valuation, 183K developers, used by Stripe and Netflix.31 mart 202612 dəq.2
#devops#architecture#careerPlatform Engineering Killed DevOps: 80% of Orgs Have Dedicated Platform Teams NowGartner: 78% of large orgs have platform teams, on track for 80% by end of 2026. Backstage has 89% market share. The shift from DevOps to platforms.23 mart 202615 dəq.2
#architecture#data-engineering#backendEvent-Driven Architecture in 2026: From 'Should We Stream?' to 'How Do We Unify?'IBM paid $11B for Confluent. 90% of enterprises adopt EDA. Kafka 4.0, Flink 2.0, and the Streamhouse vision are reshaping data infrastructure.20 mart 202615 dəq.2