A 20-person team was running 14 microservices with three full-time engineers just keeping the infrastructure alive. We consolidated six of them into a modular monolith and cut their deploy time by 70%.
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- A single slow database query triggered aggressive retries across four microservices. Within minutes, the entire order pipeline was down. Here's how we traced it and what we changed.
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- A consulting story about a minor field rename in an internal API that cascaded into a production incident, and what we put in place to stop it from happening again.
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