It’s a question I hear all the time: “What problem do microservices primarily fix?” Most people jump to answers like “performance” or “scalability.” While those are certainly benefits,
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Why Designing for the SLA Matters
When we design systems, it’s easy to get absorbed in technology stacks, architecture patterns, or frameworks. But there’s a principle that too often gets overlooked — designing for
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Data Locality in Microservices: Why It Matters
Many years ago, when I was learning about databases, the mantra was normalize, normalize, normalize. We were taught to build schemas in Third Normal Form (3NF) — break
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Defining microservice independent deployment
In the world of microservices, independent deployments are often seen as a core benefit. Most teams interpret this as “we can deploy Service A without coordinating with Service
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Best Practices for Organizing Multi-Team Development in AWS
As organizations scale their cloud-based applications, managing development across multiple teams in AWS becomes crucial. Without a well-structured approach, teams can face inefficiencies, security risks, and deployment bottlenecks.
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Testing contracts in event-driven architecture in AWS
Throughout my career, I’ve come across numerous blogs and lectures on testing event-driven architectures, covering everything from unit tests to full integration phases. A common theme in all
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Why E2E testing will never work in Microservice Architectures
Before diving into the reasons why end-to-end (E2E) testing struggles in large-scale microservice architectures, let’s recap some key traits of microservice architecture that are critical from a testing
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Microservices – Smart endpoints dumb pipes
When designing communication structures between processes, many products and methodologies focus on embedding intelligence directly into the communication mechanism. A notable example is the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB),
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Microservice CI/CD done right
In the fast-evolving world of software development, microservices architecture has become the go-to solution for building scalable, resilient, and agile applications. However, the complexity of managing numerous independent