Microservices Were Never About Scale
Teams split monoliths for throughput and got an org-chart fix. The honest case is deploy cadence and ownership — plus narrow cases where boundaries help load.
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Posts tagged Scalability
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Premature Sharding: The Decision You Cannot Take Back
Sharding usually arrives years early and charges rent forever in lost joins, transactions and simplicity. What to exhaust first, and the signals that it's time.
6 min read
The Read-Heavy Assumption
"It's read-heavy, so we'll add a cache" is the least examined sentence in system design. Four things that break it, and how to check it in an afternoon.
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