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No beginner tutorials. No listicles. Architecture essays, performance deep dives, and system design breakdowns written by engineers with production scar tissue.

System Design

Designing for Failure: Building Resilient Distributed Systems

Failure is not an edge case — it is the default state of any distributed system. Here is how to design systems that expect and absorb failure rather than collapse under it.

Jan 15, 2025
12 min read
JVM

JVM Garbage Collection Tuning: A Production Engineer's Playbook

GC pauses are not random. They are diagnostic signals. This guide covers G1GC, ZGC, and Shenandoah configuration for latency-sensitive production workloads.

Dec 8, 2024
18 min read
Architecture

The Distributed Monolith Anti-Pattern and How to Escape It

Many teams split their monolith into services without splitting the data model. The result is a distributed monolith — worse than both architectures it tried to replace.

Nov 22, 2024
10 min read
Spring Boot

Spring Boot 3.x: What Senior Engineers Actually Need to Know

Beyond the migration checklist. This is a deep look at the architectural implications of moving to Spring Boot 3, virtual threads, and the GraalVM native image ecosystem.

Nov 5, 2024
15 min read
Performance

Database Query Optimization: From Slow Queries to Sub-Millisecond

A systematic approach to identifying, analyzing, and resolving database performance problems in production PostgreSQL and MySQL systems.

Oct 18, 2024
20 min read
System Design

Event Sourcing in Practice: Lessons from Production Deployments

Event sourcing sounds elegant in theory. In practice, it introduces projections, eventual consistency, and schema evolution challenges that few articles address.

Oct 2, 2024
14 min read