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Product Tree Denormalization in Side Projects: Is It Really Necessary?
I'm examining the product tree denormalization problem I encountered in my side projects and my pragmatic approach to it. Is it really always necessary?
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API Versioning Strategies: Pragmatic Approaches
API versioning is a challenge I frequently encounter in software architecture. In this post, I'll discuss different strategies, trade-offs, and my experiences.
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Eventual Consistency vs Strong Consistency: The Right Choice Guide
Understanding the differences, advantages, disadvantages, and key considerations for making the right choice between eventual consistency and strong.
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The Operational Overhead of Migrating from Monolith to Modular
I share my experiences with the operational challenges and costs encountered when migrating from a monolithic application to a modular structure.
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Monolith vs. Modular: Which of the 3 Architectures is Right for You?
Choosing a software architecture determines a project's fate. I'll share my experiences with the trade-offs between monolithic, modular monolith, and.
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SQLite vs PostgreSQL: Which One in Production?
I compare the performance, concurrency, backup, and resource consumption differences of SQLite and PostgreSQL in production environments based on my field.
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Zero-Trust Architecture: A Pragmatic Roadmap for Small Teams
A step-by-step guide on how small teams can practically and effectively implement zero-trust architecture. Core principles, tools...
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The Hidden Cost of Idempotency in Distributed Systems
Why is idempotency necessary in distributed systems? In this post, I discuss the challenges I've faced in design, the associated costs, and my pragmatic.
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The Burden of API Versioning: URI or Header?
I compare API versioning strategies, specifically URI and Header-based approaches, using my own experiences. In which scenarios does each make more sense?
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Multi-Tenant ERP: The Risks of a Shared Schema
An in-depth look at why the shared schema approach in multi-tenant ERP systems is risky, complete with real-world examples and technical details.
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API Versioning Strategy: URI or Header? A Pragmatic Choice
Should you use URI or Header for version management in your APIs? A deep dive into the pros, cons, and real-world scenarios of both approaches.
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ORM Tools Are Overrated: Why They Fall Short in Large-Scale Projects?
I examine the shortcomings of ORM tools in large-scale projects, their performance bottlenecks, and alternative approaches with concrete examples.
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API Versioning: URI or Header? A Pragmatic Choice
Comparing API versioning strategies through URI and Header approaches. A pragmatic decision-making guide.
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Monolith or Modular Architecture? An Indie Hacker's Transition Journey
I share my personal experiences on the differences between monolith and modular architectures, the challenges of transitioning for indie hackers, and practical.
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Quota Fail-Over Discipline in Multi-Provider AI Architecture
Fail-over discipline across Gemini, Groq, Cerebras in production AI: quotas deplete invisibly, silent decay degrades quality unnoticed.
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The Anatomy of Unscalable Database Decisions in System Architecture
A deep look at the long-term effects of database choices in system architecture and the scalability traps they create. The cost of bad decisions and…
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Database Sharding Decisions: An Architect's Regrets
Examine the challenges of database sharding decisions and possible architectural regrets through Mustafa Erbay's eyes. Technical depth and practical advice.
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Feature Flags and Configuration Governance: Parameter Store and Audit
Treating configuration like a product: feature flags, parameter store, schema, approval flow, audit log, and rollback discipline.
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Secure B2B File Flow with an Object Storage Dropzone
An approach to building secure B2B file exchange using an object storage dropzone, short-lived access, and audit trails — instead of an SFTP bottleneck.
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Retry Storms: Timeout Budget and Latency Amplification
In distributed systems, badly designed retries make outages worse. An approach to limiting damage with timeout budgets, retry budgets, and backpressure.
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Edge Service Design with BGP Anycast: DNS and DDoS Resilience
A practical edge design guide that addresses routing, health signals, capacity, and attack scenarios together to see Anycast's real benefits.
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Enterprise SSO Federation: A SAML/OIDC Gateway Architecture
An SSO broker design that unifies legacy SAML applications and modern OIDC services under a single identity policy — secure and operationally manageable.
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Online Schema Migration: Expand/Contract, Backfill, and Dual Write
An expand/contract approach for schema changes without downtime, plus backfill strategy, dual-write risks, and a rollback plan.
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Path Selection and Incident Triage with SLA Probes in SD-WAN
Choosing the right path for application classes via active probes that measure latency/jitter/loss; rapid diagnosis during degradation and a controlled…
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Sticky Sessions and Load Balancer Decisions for Stateful Traffic
When are sticky sessions essential and when are they technical debt for WebSocket, long TCP sessions and stateful applications? A decision matrix grounded…
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Egress Control in ZTNA: Designing Against Data Exfiltration
ZTNA isn't just about inbound access. A practical approach to data leakage with egress (outbound) control, DLP signals and service-centric segmentation.
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Designing a Telemetry Pipeline with OpenTelemetry Collector
Treating Collector not just as an agent but as a central telemetry backbone for sampling, redaction, routing and multi-destination delivery.
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Mapping Risk with Pre-mortems Before a Change
Living through the failure in your head before going to production: pre-mortem cadence, a template, decision points, and operational leadership in practice.
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Balancing Operational Confidence and Speed with DORA Metrics
Keeping production confidence while increasing deployment speed: a practical management cadence and team rhythm that combines DORA metrics with SRE signals.
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Object Storage with Ceph: Failure Domain and Recovery Design
Beyond installing Ceph: an architectural approach to failure domain, capacity, and recovery behavior so the cluster can actually heal during a fault.
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Segmentation and Governance with Transit Gateway in Hybrid Cloud
A practical architecture guide that handles hub-spoke and Transit Gateway design together with security, route control, and operational observability.
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Time Synchronization in Critical Systems: NTP, PTP and Observability
An architectural, security-focused, and operational view of NTP/PTP for distributed systems where TLS, log correlation, and consistency depend on accurate time.
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L2 Encryption with MACsec in Enterprise Networks
Hardening campus and data center backbones by encrypting L2 links with MACsec (802.1AE): design choices, risks, and operations.
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Kernel Live Patching and a Maintenance Model on Enterprise Linux
Managing kernel security patches without reboot pressure: a live-patch approach, the risks, a ring strategy, and operational discipline.
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Health Check Blindness in L4 Pools: Failover and Blackholes
When pool members appear 'UP' but traffic vanishes, combining active checks with passive signals to design failover that actually reflects reality.
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An Exit Plan for Vendor Lock-in: Technical + Operational Contract
A practical framework that treats vendor lock-in not as 'fear' but a manageable risk, tying the exit plan into technical design and operational processes.
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Cache Stampede (Thundering Herd) and Operational Defenses
A guide to taming the stampede (thundering herd) risk that can crush a backend after TTL expiry or a cache flush — using jitter, singleflight, and stale…
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IPv6 in Enterprise Networks: A Roadmap from Dual-Stack to IPv6-Only
A field-applicable plan for rolling out IPv6 not just as 'an address' but together with DNS, security, observability, and operational reflexes.
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A Lightweight RFC Process for Architecture Decisions
How to keep architectural consistency while moving fast: short RFCs, clear ownership, time boxes, and a paper trail of decisions.
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A Safe Experiment Plane for Chaos Engineering
Hypotheses, blast radius and automatic rollback guardrails so resilience tests don't turn into blind risks in production.
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SLO-Based Degrade Modes and Load Shedding
Producing controlled loss instead of a random collapse when a system is under pressure: rate limits, queues, feature flags and prioritization.
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DSCP and QoS on the WAN: End-to-End Prioritization
A guide to running QoS not as a magic wand but as an operational discipline managed with end-to-end measurement and a real trust boundary.
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Replay and Idempotency in Messaging: Operational Patterns
Bringing reliable processing guarantees to message-based architectures with outbox, dedup keys, DLQ, and a replay runbook.
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Database Connection Pool Saturation and the Latency Feedback Loop
A practical framework to detect the queue, timeout, and retry loop that emerges when a connection pool clogs, and to intervene safely.
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Safe Version Migration in ERP Infrastructures via Transaction…
A transaction-shadowing approach for testing a new release inside critical ERP flows without producing live impact.
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Maintenance Wave Architecture for Patch Orchestration on…
An architectural decision frame for rolling out patches across large platform fleets in controlled waves rather than in a single pass.
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Regional Integration Cells in ERP Infrastructures
Explores the regional cell approach for ERP integrations to manage data sovereignty, latency, and blast radius.
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Integration Rollout in ERP Infrastructures via Release Rings
An enterprise architecture approach that grows ERP integration flows through controlled rings rather than flipping the core in one shot.
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Test Data Masking Factory for ERP Infrastructures
A repeatable masking pipeline for ERP test environments that preserves realistic data behavior, keeps security intact, and is reproducible.
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A Dedicated DNSSEC-Validating Resolver Layer in Enterprise Networks
An enterprise architecture approach that places DNSSEC validation in a dedicated resolver layer to raise trust in name resolution.
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A Digital Twin Layer for Policy Drift in Enterprise Networks
A digital twin approach for seeing drift in firewall, routing, and segmentation rules without touching production.
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RPKI-Based BGP Trust Chain in Enterprise Networks
An architectural approach to building an RPKI-based trust chain in enterprise networks to reduce BGP route leak and forged origin risks.
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Break-Glass Access Vault Architecture in Enterprise Cloud
An architectural approach to managing privileged emergency access not through always-on permissions but via an auditable, short-lived control plane.
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Service Impact Analysis with a Dependency Graph on Enterprise…
An approach that turns architectural dependencies from a static diagram into readable impact analysis available before changes.
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An Active-Active Integration Corridor for ERP Infrastructures
An architectural approach focused on resilience and consistency that runs the integration layer active-active without straining the ERP core.
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A Quarantine Account for the Management Plane in Enterprise Cloud
Architectural guide covering the quarantine account approach and its boundaries when isolating management services from production resources in a cloud…
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Decision Log Discipline for Senior Engineers
A decision log approach that lifts architectural and operational choices out of personal memory and turns them into something a whole team can carry.
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Designing a Reporting Replica for ERP Infrastructures
An architectural approach that protects the production transactional load while moving reporting and analytics queries onto a separate data surface.
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Reversible Schema Migration Pipeline in ERP Infrastructures
An ERP approach that manages database schema changes through a reversible and observable migration pipeline, without amplifying outage risk.
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An Observability Control Room for ERP Infrastructures
An observability control room approach that gathers ERP-adjacent critical flows not into a single pane but into a single operational language.
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An Idempotent Retry Corridor in ERP Integrations
A retry corridor that prevents repeated calls from producing data inconsistencies and improves resilience in ERP integrations.
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Segment-Based Resolution in Enterprise Networks with DNS Firewall
A DNS architecture that separates the resolution flow per segment, reducing abuse risk, data exfiltration, and operational blind spots.
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SLO-Based Capacity Reservation in Enterprise Cloud
A cloud architecture approach that ties capacity decisions to service objectives rather than average utilization alone.
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Batch-Window-Free Workflow Architecture in ERP Infrastructures
An architectural approach that converts ERP processes tied to nightly batch windows into event-driven and observable flows.
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Secret Key Distribution Plane in ERP Infrastructures
A central secret key distribution architecture that reduces the burden of secret handling across ERP integrations and batch flows.
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Migration Strategy to an L3 Clos Fabric in Enterprise Networks
An architectural roadmap for moving from layered bottleneck designs to an L3 Clos fabric in growing data center networks.
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A Telemetry Control Plane for Enterprise Observability
An architecture that manages telemetry cost and security through a central decision layer instead of scattered agents and pipelines.
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Control Plane Decoupling Strategy in Enterprise Platforms
An architectural approach that separates the control plane from the product lifecycle as platform teams scale shared services.
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Integration Contract Governance in ERP Modernization
An integration contract approach that protects version, ownership, and change boundaries of services around the ERP.
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Designing the Shared Identity Boundary in the Enterprise Cloud
A shared design approach that simplifies identity, authorization, and operational boundaries in multi-account cloud setups.
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DNS-Based Service Routing in Enterprise Networks
A framework for treating the DNS layer as a service routing and resilience control point, not just a name resolution service.
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Integration DMZ Design in ERP Infrastructures
An integration DMZ approach for connecting ERP systems to external services in a secure and manageable way.
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Golden Path Design in Enterprise Platforms
An architectural framework for the golden path approach so platform teams can deliver speed and standardization together.