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Stop Defaulting to Microservices
Microservices are not a starting point. They are a response to a specific set of scaling and organizational problems. Here is how to decide what actually fits your system.
2/15/2026
  • #Architecture
  • #Microservices
  • #Software Engineering
Event-Driven Architecture Is Not Just Kafka
Most teams say they are doing event-driven architecture when they are really just publishing messages to a broker. There is a fundamental difference, and getting it wrong leads to brittle, tightly coupled systems disguised as decoupled ones.
2/14/2026
  • #Architecture
  • #Event-Driven
  • #Distributed Systems
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5/18/2020
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