#microservices

Why saga patterns beat orchestration for long-running processes

Orchestration looks great on a whiteboard until your orchestrator becomes the single point of everything

Feb 17, 2026

What is so bad about shared databases with microservices?

Mar 14, 2024

The team at Amazon Prime published an article where they explain their move from serv...

May 16, 2023

How can a microservices-based architecture, that looked great on paper, turn into a s...

Jul 1, 2021

In the previous articles, I demonstrated why there is not really a need for priority ...

Aug 26, 2020

Once upon a time, I came across a question about a system that was designed according...

Aug 7, 2020

In the past we used to have monoliths. These were bad. Big balls of mud. Whenever we ...

Feb 21, 2017

Today I gave two presentations at an SDN Event in Zeist. An engineer (not the softwar...

Sep 2, 2016