Picking service boundaries is one problem — I’ve covered that separately when writing about bounded contexts and communication between services. What actually crosses those boundaries
Category: Architecture & Methods
Microservices, monolith migrations, SDLC practice and the ways teams organise their work.
I’ve written a monolith-to-microservices playbook before that mostly stayed at the level of architecture decisions — bounded contexts, service boundaries, the stuff of diagrams. The
Introduction: Moving Agile from Theory to the Terminal I’ve seen firsthand how a well-tuned Node.js/Express backend can sit idle in a half-finished sprint while the
Introduction Managing the full Software Development Lifecycle across a Node.js/Express backend, a Next.js frontend, and a self-hosted Proxmox homelab has given me a very concrete
Why Monolith Migrations Go Wrong Having spent years wiring together Node.js services behind an Express gateway — and having watched PM2 restart loops cascade through
Introduction When I started breaking apart a monolithic Express application into smaller services on my Proxmox homelab, I quickly learned that the architectural diagram on