Author: Carmen Burke
The Great Monolith-to-Microservices Migration: A War Story
The Monolith That Ate Manhattan Three years ago, I inherited a monolith that had grown like a digital tumor. What started as a sensible Rails application had metastasized into 400,000 lines of tightly... Read More
The Forgotten Art of Database Hints and Why Your ORM Hates Them
Last Tuesday at 2:47 AM, I watched our payment processing API grind to a halt because a single query decided to table scan 40 million rows instead of using the perfectly good index sitting right there... Read More
Your Cloud Bill Is Lying to You (And How to Make It Tell the Truth)
The Great Cloud Cost Theater After fifteen years of watching companies migrate to the cloud with the enthusiasm of lottery winners, I’ve noticed something peculiar. The same organizations that m... Read More