11 articles tagged with Architecture.
Kubernetes is the right answer for fewer teams than run it. Five questions that tell you whether you need it, and what to run instead when you don't.
Perplexity built its own key-value store because DynamoDB's read path and bill stopped fitting 50 KB search items. Here is the checklist for when leaving is justified.
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 a single LLM provider has an outage, every AI feature goes dark at once. A gateway with routing and fallback fixes that, and enforced budgets cut spend 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 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 to plan for.
Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Snowflake. Each fits a different workload. The decision criteria, not the marketing comparison.
