🎓 AUTHORITY NOTE This content reflects 20+ years of hands-on enterprise software engineering and architecture experience. Recommendations are production-tested and enterprise-validated. Executive Summary The transition from monolithic architectures to microservices is often painted as a silver bullet for scalability. However, without the right distributed system patterns, it often results in a “distributed monolith”—a system that […]
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The Serverless Revolution: Why AWS Lambda Changed Everything I Thought I Knew About Building Scalable Systems
🎓 AUTHORITY NOTE Drawing from 20+ years of enterprise architecture experience and having migrated dozens of production systems to serverless, representing millions of Lambda invocations monthly. This is battle-tested, production-proven knowledge. Executive Summary There’s a moment in every architect’s career when a technology fundamentally rewrites your mental model of how systems should work. For me, […]
Read more →Event-Driven Architecture on GCP: Mastering Cloud Pub/Sub for Real-Time Systems
Google Cloud Pub/Sub provides the foundation for event-driven architectures at any scale, offering globally distributed messaging with exactly-once delivery semantics and sub-second latency. This comprehensive guide explores Pub/Sub’s enterprise capabilities. Cloud Pub/Sub Architecture Overview Pub/Sub Architecture: Topics, Subscriptions, and Delivery Guarantees Pub/Sub implements a publish-subscribe pattern where publishers send messages to topics and subscribers receive […]
Read more →The Serverless Revolution: Why AWS Lambda Changed How We Think About Infrastructure
When AWS Lambda launched in 2014, it fundamentally changed how we think about infrastructure. No servers to provision, no capacity to plan, no patches to apply—just code that runs when events occur, billed by the millisecond. AWS Lambda Event-Driven Architecture The Mental Model Shift Traditional infrastructure starts with capacity planning: How many servers? What instance […]
Read more →Azure Functions and Serverless Architecture: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Event-Driven Computing
After two decades of building enterprise applications, I’ve witnessed the evolution from monolithic deployments to microservices, and now to serverless architectures. Azure Functions represents a fundamental shift in how we think about compute—moving from “always-on” infrastructure to truly event-driven, pay-per-execution models. This transformation isn’t just about cost savings; it’s about building systems that scale automatically […]
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