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Event-Driven Architecture with TypeScript
Build scalable, decoupled systems with event-driven architecture. Production-ready event bus, domain events, outbox pattern, and dead letter queues.
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The Resiliency Reckoning: Why Cloud Giants Are Your New Single Point of Failure
The Cloudflare crash on November 18th, coupled with recent AWS and Azure outages, reveals an uncomfortable truth: our industry's consolidation has created catastrophic single points of failure at scale. It's time for CTOs to rethink resiliency architecture.
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Building a Technical Strategy: From Vision to Execution
A comprehensive guide to creating, communicating, and executing a technical strategy that drives business value. Includes frameworks, templates, and real-world examples.
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Making Tech Stack Decisions: A Framework
A practical framework for evaluating and choosing technologies that will serve your team and business for years to come.
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Microservices vs Monolith: Architecture Decision Guide for CTOs
Strategic comparison of microservices and monolithic architectures. Team size, complexity, deployment, costs, and when to choose each approach.
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MySQL vs PostgreSQL: Database Decision Guide for CTOs
Strategic comparison of MySQL and PostgreSQL. Performance, features, costs, team expertise, and when to choose each relational database.
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REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC: API Architecture Comparison for CTOs
Strategic comparison of REST, GraphQL, and gRPC API architectures. Performance, complexity, tooling, team expertise, and when to choose each approach.
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The Architecture Review Process: From Proposal to Approval
A systematic framework for reviewing architecture proposals that balances speed with rigor. Includes review criteria, decision templates, and governance models for teams of all sizes.
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The Tech Stack Evaluation Framework: Choosing Technologies That Scale
A systematic approach to evaluating and choosing technology stacks. Includes comparison matrices, risk assessments, and decision frameworks for databases, languages, frameworks, and infrastructure.
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The Technical Decision-Making Framework: Build vs Buy, Tech Stack, and Architecture Choices
A systematic approach to making high-stakes technical decisions that balance speed, cost, and long-term maintainability. Includes decision matrices, evaluation templates, and real-world examples.
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The AI Platform Era Is Here: App Stores, Agentic Observability, and “Meta-Architecture”
AI is consolidating into a platform era: distribution marketplaces, capital-scale infrastructure bets, and a new engineering stack—agentic observability, guardrails, and AI-native architecture—that will reshape how CTOs design, operate, and govern their systems.
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Uber's Query Architecture Redesign: Enhancing Performance and Observability
Uber's overhaul of Apache Pinot query architecture shows how simplifying complex systems improves performance and observability. Key lessons for CTOs on architectural evolution.
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System Design Interview: URL Shortener
Complete system design interview question for building a URL shortener like bit.ly, including requirements gathering, architecture, and trade-offs.
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Architecture Decision Record (ADR) Template
A comprehensive template for documenting architectural decisions with context, alternatives considered, and consequences.
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architectures
SaaS Multi-Tenant Architecture: Complete Guide
A comprehensive guide to designing and implementing multi-tenant SaaS architectures with data isolation, performance, and scalability in mind.
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