What is MCP and Why Did It Become 2026's Most Important AI Standard?
Exploring the Microservice Communication Protocol (MCP) standard, which solves the incompatibility problem between AI models, using a USB-C analogy and my own.
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Exploring the Microservice Communication Protocol (MCP) standard, which solves the incompatibility problem between AI models, using a USB-C analogy and my own.
I examine the balance between simplicity and flexibility when choosing among API versioning strategies, drawing from my own experiences. Which approach works.
A bitter truth from 20 years of field experience for those who jumped on the microservices bandwagon and overcomplicated their systems: Monolith is not dead.
I share my experiences with the operational challenges and costs encountered when migrating from a monolithic application to a modular structure.
Choosing a software architecture determines a project's fate. I'll share my experiences with the trade-offs between monolithic, modular monolith, and.
I delve into 3 different strategies you can use when transitioning from a monolithic to a modular architecture, examining their trade-offs and providing.
Comparing the impact of Monolith and Microservices architectures on CI/CD processes, with practical experience. Deciding when to choose which.
Exploring the technical risks, database strategies, and practical transition approaches of Strangler Fig and Big Bang when moving monolithic systems to modular.
While the microservices wind blows, my production experience shows why monolithic structures still hold value. A pragmatic perspective.
A deep look at the risks the eventual consistency model brings to distributed systems, and how to prevent critical data loss like missing orders.
I dig into the hidden performance costs of the service mesh sidecar pattern — resource consumption, latency, and operational cost — and how to reason about…
An in-depth guide to API gateway scaling problems, the complexity of system architecture, and how these wars affect your career.
Misapplying or skipping the circuit breaker pattern in microservice architectures can cause serious crises in production environments. In this post…
Examine the causes and impact of broadcast storms that can erupt inside virtual networks of microservice architectures, and learn how to prevent this…
How do hidden API Gateway limits cause unexpected issues in production? In this article, we explore strategies and practical solutions to prevent these.
Beyond the advantages Service Mesh offers, the often-overlooked performance costs and how they reflect on a software engineer's career…
Discover the hidden network dependencies that quietly bring production systems down. This article walks through the causes, symptoms, and prevention…
Take a deep dive on Mustafa Erbay's blog into the complexity of distributed tracing in critical systems and the invisible errors that come with it…