Capacity Planning: How to Size Systems Before They Explode
Metrics, prediction models, vertical vs horizontal scaling and when to scale. The engineering of predicting before fighting fires.
Decision Logs
Not tutorials. Real decisions, real trade-offs, real consequences.
Metrics, prediction models, vertical vs horizontal scaling and when to scale. The engineering of predicting before fighting fires.
They're not the same. Not interchangeable. Real differences, when you need each, and the most common anti-pattern.
The platform that moves global commerce. Internal architecture, real troubleshooting and lessons from banking environments.
When the JVM won't talk, dumps speak for it. Diagnosing deadlocks, memory leaks and concurrency issues.
If the incident repeats, the postmortem failed. Structure, blame-free culture and actionable items.
K8s isn't the answer to everything. Real decisions on resource limits, networking, storage and debugging.
Beyond the 99.9%. Active-active, failover, health checks, quorum and the decisions that matter.
Diagnosis is not intuition. It's method. A 5-step framework for diagnosing production incidents.
Why AI is really a set of functional models: LLMs, computer vision and generative models. Practical understanding for engineers.
A practical guide to modern architecture without falling for the hype. Real criteria for deciding when to split and when not to.
Essential patterns for production systems: Circuit Breaker, Retry, Timeout, Bulkhead and Fallbacks.
How to measure, design and manage latency budgets in critical platforms.
The difference between monitoring and observability. The 3 pillars for distributed systems.
Practical implementation of the Circuit Breaker pattern to prevent cascading failures in distributed architectures.
Understanding AWS, Azure and IBM Cloud through architectural patterns, not service names.