🎓 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, […]
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The debate between monolithic and microservices architectures has evolved significantly over the past decade. What was once a straightforward “microservices are better” narrative has matured into a nuanced understanding that the right architecture depends entirely on context. After leading architecture decisions across dozens of enterprise systems, I’ve learned that the most expensive mistakes come not […]
Read more →Azure Container Apps: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Serverless Containers
Azure Container Apps represents Microsoft’s serverless container platform, offering Kubernetes-like capabilities without cluster management complexity, powered by KEDA auto-scaling and native Dapr integration. Container Apps Architecture Platform Comparison Key Features Feature Description Use Case Revisions Immutable snapshots of app version Blue-green, canary deployments Traffic Splitting Route % traffic to different revisions A/B testing, gradual rollouts […]
Read more →Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Enterprise Container Orchestration
After two decades of deploying and managing containerized workloads across enterprises, I’ve watched Kubernetes evolve from a complex orchestration tool into the de facto standard for container management. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) represents Microsoft’s fully managed Kubernetes offering, and having architected dozens of AKS deployments, I can share the patterns and practices that separate successful […]
Read more →Event-Driven Architecture: When and How to Implement
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