A 20-person team was running 14 microservices with three full-time engineers just keeping the infrastructure alive. We consolidated six of them into a modular monolith and cut their deploy time by 70%.
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Personal blog about my experiences and thoughts on software development.
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- A client's team was drowning in a 200K-line TypeScript monolith. When we finally measured what was actually running in production, we found that almost a third of it was dead code nobody had touched in over a year.
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- We ran load tests before a big product launch, got green across the board, and watched the system buckle under real traffic two days later. The tests weren't wrong — they just weren't testing reality.
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- A client's on-call rotation was burning people out — not because of real incidents, but because of noise. Here's how we cut alerts by 87% without missing anything that actually required a human.
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- A single slow database query triggered aggressive retries across four microservices. Within minutes, the entire order pipeline was down. Here's how we traced it and what we changed.
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