2d ago · 4 min read · When I started building my backend, I put everything in one place — user logic, video logic, comments, subscriptions — all in one codebase, one server, one deployment. That's called a monolithic archi
Join discussionMar 19 · 6 min read · The landscape of modern software engineering is shifting rapidly, moving away from rigid, single-stack structures toward fluid, distributed systems. When developers first encounter a sprawling legacy
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Mar 14 · 10 min read · It’s Tuesday stand up. Someone asks about a small UI fix. A senior engineer sighs — “We can’t. The payment team has a release Thursday, we share the same pipeline.” Everyone nods. Nobody is surprised.
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Feb 11 · 2 min read · Microservices are trendy. But if you build them wrong, you don't get "scalability"—you get a "Distributed Monolith." A Distributed Monolith is just as rigid as your old codebase, except now every function call requires a network request and has 50ms ...
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Feb 5 · 4 min read · For a long time, microservices were treated almost like a rite of passage. If a company wanted to be taken seriously in modern engineering circles, it needed services, containers, and a distributed architecture. Monoliths, on the other hand, were fra...
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Jan 26 · 1 min read · Early AI applications are usually monolithic. One FastAPI app does everything. This quickly becomes a bottleneck. As usage grows, teams must split responsibilities. A typical evolution: auth-service agent-service vector-service analytics-service Eac...
Join discussionJan 22 · 9 min read · By the time you reach this point in the series, you have made a lot of architectural promises. You have said that modules are isolated, that behaviour is local, that data is owned, that communication is explicit, and that authorisation does not leak ...
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Jan 21 · 16 min read · Introduction The architectural debate between monoliths and microservices has dominated software engineering discussions for nearly two decades. Yet in 2026, the conversation has matured beyond the false binary of "one is better than the other." The ...
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