5 posts tagged with "architecture"
Early in my career, I built ticketing systems for arts venues. Our platform could be bulletproof - but if the client's backend fell over, the on-sale still failed. That taught me how to build resilience around dependencies I couldn't control.
In 2020, I wrote a theoretical warning about microservices. Then I spent three years inside 120 of them. Here's what the theory didn't prepare me for.
I've watched companies chase shiny technology for nearly two decades. The pattern is always the same: promises of elegance, delivered complexity, and teams that can't sustain it.
Most failed systems I've rescued weren't too rigid - they were too flexible. Built for futures that never arrived. I've spent years untangling the results.
Microservices were supposed to save us. For most teams, they just moved the pain around — and made everything more complicated in the process.