Deep dives into distributed systems, microservices architecture, API design, cloud infrastructure, and software engineering craft.

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Message Queues Have a File Size Ceiling: Design Around It

The size ceiling nobody budgets for

Defend What You Built: Winning an Architecture Decision as the New Person

There is a particular kind of meeting that tests you early in a new role. Everyone in the room has context you don’t have yet. A vendor evaluation is already in motion. The path of least resistance is to nod along, ap...

When Your Upstream Goes Down: Building a Resilient Integration Microservice on Azure Service Bus