The first time I decomposed a monolith into microservices, I made every mistake in the book. We ended up with a distributed monolith—all the complexity of microservices with none of the benefits. That painful experience taught me that microservices architecture isn’t about the services themselves; it’s about the patterns that make them work together. Microservices… Continue reading
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The Serverless Revolution: Why AWS Lambda Changed Everything I Thought I Knew About Building Scalable Systems
There’s a moment in every architect’s career when a technology fundamentally rewrites your mental model of how systems should work. For me, that moment came in 2016 when I deployed my first AWS Lambda function and watched it scale from zero to handling thousands of concurrent requests without a single configuration change. After two decades… Continue reading
The Architecture Decision That Will Make or Break Your System: Monolith vs Microservices in 2025
The debate between monolithic and microservices architectures has evolved significantly over the past decade. What was once a straightforward “microservices are better” narrative has matured into a nuanced understanding that the right architecture depends entirely on context. After leading architecture decisions across dozens of enterprise systems, I’ve learned that the most expensive mistakes come not… Continue reading
Azure Container Apps: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Serverless Containers
The evolution of container orchestration has reached an inflection point where the complexity of managing Kubernetes clusters often overshadows the benefits of containerization itself. Azure Container Apps represents Microsoft’s answer to this challenge, providing a serverless container platform that abstracts away infrastructure management while retaining the flexibility that modern cloud-native applications demand. Having architected numerous… Continue reading
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Enterprise Container Orchestration
After two decades of deploying and managing containerized workloads across enterprises, I’ve watched Kubernetes evolve from a complex orchestration tool into the de facto standard for container management. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) represents Microsoft’s fully managed Kubernetes offering, and having architected dozens of AKS deployments, I can share the patterns and practices that separate successful… Continue reading
Embracing Cloud Native and Multi-Cloud: A Journey Through Modern Infrastructure
The evolution of cloud computing has fundamentally transformed how we architect, deploy, and manage enterprise applications. After spending over two decades in software engineering and solutions architecture, I’ve witnessed this transformation firsthand—from the early days of virtualization to today’s sophisticated cloud-native and multi-cloud ecosystems. This article explores the principles, patterns, and practical considerations that define… Continue reading