Two Lines of Defence Against Drift in SDD-Built Distributed Systems
Golden tests and runtime conformance probes guard different lifecycle stages — together they make spec drift visible before and after merge.
Demistifying Event Sourcing (2 of 5): same name, very different beasts
Event sourcing and event-driven architecture share a word and almost nothing else. One is a persistence strategy, the other a communication style, and conflating them leads to bad designs.
Event-Driven Architecture: When and Why
A practical look at when event-driven patterns solve real problems, and when they add unnecessary complexity.
Caching Strategies: Cache-Aside, Write-Through, and When to Use Each
A systematic breakdown of caching patterns, their consistency guarantees, and the failure modes you need to plan for.