Deep dives into real projects: the problems faced, architectural decisions made, tradeoffs considered, and measurable outcomes achieved.
When Nobody Owns the Cloud Bill
An infrastructure audit revealed unjustified costs from unused services, over-provisioned databases, and misconfigured storage. Strategic consolidation and right-sizing reduced monthly IT costs by 80% while funding critical security improvements.
Read case study →When Architecture Patterns Don't Match the Problem
A fintech company built three successive solutions to process millions of financial events for real-time alerts. Each failed for different technical reasons, but the same organizational pattern persisted. This case study examines what went wrong and what should have been built instead.
Read case study →When Infrastructure Constraints Doom Sound Architecture
A loan servicing engine built with CQRS and Event Sourcing achieved every architectural benefit the patterns promise, until a business mandate to use only SQL Server created insurmountable performance problems at scale. This case study examines how infrastructure constraints can poison otherwise sound architectural decisions.
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