9 articles tagged with Architecture.
A practical guide to the signals that justify a message queue, the costs it adds, and a checklist for deciding.
A practical guide to publish-subscribe messaging, covering topics, fan-out, delivery guarantees, durable subscriptions, and the real systems that power it.
A practical tour of the message queue patterns that keep distributed backends decoupled, resilient, and able to survive traffic spikes.
Synchronous calls couple your services together and fail together. Events let systems react instead of ask. This is the map: the patterns, the messaging tools, and the delivery guarantees that make it work.
A practitioner's guide to choosing between serverless and provisioned databases based on cost, latency, connections, and load shape.
When our single LLM provider had a 40-minute outage, every AI feature went dark. A gateway with routing and fallback fixed that, and cut spend 30% as a bonus.
Most agents that "need memory" actually need a smaller context window and a database. Here's how we cut a support agent's token bill by 60 percent by deleting memory.
The architectural choice is presented as binary; the practical answer is "depends on the workload." The patterns that earn their place and the failure modes we've hit.
Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Snowflake. We use all five for different workloads. The decision criteria, not the marketing comparison.
