Architecture
A Service Mesh Rollout That Was Worth It
- Architecture
- DevOps
- 20 Oct 2026
- 08 Mins read
The request that started this was not "can we have a service mesh". It was an auditor asking how we encrypted traffic between services, and the honest answer being that we mostly did not. Everything i
Cutting p99 Latency 60% with a Caching Rearchitecture
- Architecture
- Performance
- 13 Oct 2026
- 10 Mins read
The complaint that started this was not about speed. It was a support ticket saying the dashboard "sometimes doesn't load," from a customer whose account was roughly forty times larger than our median
Multi-Region Active-Active for a Payments API
- Architecture
- Cloud Computing
- 16 Aug 2026
- 06 Mins read
A payments API that moves real money had been running comfortably in a single AWS region for years. It was reliable until the day it was not: a regional control-plane incident took the whole service o
Migrating a Monolith to Kubernetes Without a Big-Bang Cutover
- DevOps
- Cloud Native
- 20 Jul 2026
- 07 Mins read
Almost every failed "let's move off the monolith" project shares one detail: the plan was a big-bang cutover. Rewrite in parallel, pick a weekend, flip the switch, and pray. This is the opposite of th