Here's a conversation I've had more than once. A developer is building a React app. It starts simple, a few components, some local state, everything in useState. Then the app grows. Props start getting passed down two levels, then three, then five. ...

You Don't Need Microservices Yet: A Reality Check for Devs How Premature Architecture Decisions Slow Down Teams and Burn Engineering Budget Every few months, I see the same conversation play out in engineering teams. A new project kicks off. The ...

You Don't Need Microservices Yet: A Reality Check for Devs How Premature Architecture Decisions Slow Down Teams and Burn Engineering Budget Every few months, I see the same conversation play out in engineering teams. A new project kicks off. The ...

You Don't Need Microservices Yet: A Reality Check for Devs How Premature Architecture Decisions Slow Down Teams and Burn Engineering Budget Every few months, I see the same conversation play out in engineering teams. A new project kicks off. The ...

You Don't Need Microservices Yet: A Reality Check for Devs How Premature Architecture Decisions Slow Down Teams and Burn Engineering Budget Every few months, I see the same conversation play out in engineering teams. A new project kicks off. The ...

You Don't Need Microservices Yet: A Reality Check for Devs How Premature Architecture Decisions Slow Down Teams and Burn Engineering Budget Every few months, I see the same conversation play out in engineering teams. A new project kicks off. The ...

You Don't Need Microservices Yet: A Reality Check for Devs How Premature Architecture Decisions Slow Down Teams and Burn Engineering Budget Every few months, I see the same conversation play out in engineering teams. A new project kicks off. The ...

You Don't Need Microservices Yet: A Reality Check for Devs How Premature Architecture Decisions Slow Down Teams and Burn Engineering Budget Every few months, I see the same conversation play out in engineering teams. A new project kicks off. The ...

You Don't Need Microservices Yet: A Reality Check for Devs How Premature Architecture Decisions Slow Down Teams and Burn Engineering Budget Every few months, I see the same conversation play out in engineering teams. A new project kicks off. The ...

You Don't Need Microservices Yet: A Reality Check for Devs How Premature Architecture Decisions Slow Down Teams and Burn Engineering Budget Every few months, I see the same conversation play out in engineering teams. A new project kicks off. The ...

You Don't Need Microservices Yet: A Reality Check for Devs How Premature Architecture Decisions Slow Down Teams and Burn Engineering Budget Every few months, I see the same conversation play out in engineering teams. A new project kicks off. The ...

You Don't Need Microservices Yet: A Reality Check for Devs How Premature Architecture Decisions Slow Down Teams and Burn Engineering Budget Every few months, I see the same conversation play out in engineering teams. A new project kicks off. The ...

You Don't Need Microservices Yet: A Reality Check for Devs How Premature Architecture Decisions Slow Down Teams and Burn Engineering Budget Every few months, I see the same conversation play out in engineering teams. A new project kicks off. The ...

You Don't Need Microservices Yet: A Reality Check for Devs How Premature Architecture Decisions Slow Down Teams and Burn Engineering Budget Every few months, I see the same conversation play out in engineering teams. A new project kicks off. The ...

You Don't Need Microservices Yet: A Reality Check for Devs How Premature Architecture Decisions Slow Down Teams and Burn Engineering Budget Every few months, I see the same conversation play out in engineering teams. A new project kicks off. The ...

You Don't Need Microservices Yet: A Reality Check for Devs How Premature Architecture Decisions Slow Down Teams and Burn Engineering Budget Every few months, I see the same conversation play out in engineering teams. A new project kicks off. The ...

I've seen this file in almost every frontend project I've ever touched. It's usually called api.js or utils.js or sometimes just helpers.ts. It starts small. One function. Two functions. Then, six months later, it's 800 lines long, nobody fully un...

I've seen this file in almost every frontend project I've ever touched. It's usually called api.js or utils.js or sometimes just helpers.ts. It starts small. One function. Two functions. Then, six months later, it's 800 lines long, nobody fully un...

It was a Thursday afternoon when the Teams message came in. A bug in production. A date formatting issue causing checkout to fail for users in certain timezones. Small bug, real impact: the payment flow was broken for roughly 8% of users. The fix t...

I was doing a code review for a colleague when I found it. The component had five useEffect hooks. No errors. No warnings in the console. The PM had signed off on it. It had been in production for three months. But there was a subtle bug that o...