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The Modular Service Design Architecture Movement
Many companies big and small are replacing monolith platforms and software to modular services, read why...
Enterprise
Netflix: The Three-Day Outage That Changed Everything
In August 2008, Netflix suffered a database corruption event…
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Enterprise
Shopify: The Modular Monolith Nobody Talks About
By 2017, Shopify had a problem that wasn't visible from the outside….
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Enterprise
Airbnb: When the Monolith Slows the Team
Airbnb's Ruby on Rails monolith served them well in the early years…
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Enterprise
Uber: When the Architecture Is Right but the Operations Aren't
Uber's microservices migration is often cited as a success, and architecturally, it was…
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Enterprise
Amazon Prime Video: The Case for Right-Sizing
In March 2023, Prime Video's engineering team published a case study…
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Mid-Market
Sievo: Nine Years Is Not a Failure
Sievo is a Finnish procurement analytics company that has been transforming its…
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Mid-Market
Appsmith: Arriving at the Right Answer from First Principles
Appsmith is a platform for building internal tools — the kind of software that lives…
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Mid-Market
A Leasing Platform: The Coordination Tax
A paperless leasing platform operating across multiple regional markets was growing….
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Mid-Market
A U.S. SaaS Company: Eight Weeks, No Downtime
The usual reason companies don't modernize isn't that they don't know it's necessary…
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Mid-Market
A U.S. Sales Intelligence Platform: AI Needs a Clean Data Layer First
A U.S. sales intelligence platform had built a monolith that did what it was supposed to…
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startup
Vaultly: The Slack Channel for Data Forensics
Vaultly built its B2B compliance SaaS the right way for a seed-stage company…
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startup
Meridian Health: The Six-Week Sprint That Was Losing Deals
Meridian Health built a clinical workflow tool that hospital IT teams genuinely liked…
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startup
Routewell: The Pricing Module That Knew Too Much
Routewell launched with a clear premise: real-time freight routing for mid-market shippers…
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startup
Stackmere: The Migration That Took Eleven Months
Stackmere built a B2B commerce platform for specialty wholesale — buyers with custom…
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Spotify: When Your Architecture Decides Your Org Chart
Spotify's move to microservices is usually framed as a scaling story — more services…
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Innovaccer: The Hidden Cost of Infrastructure in Healthcare Data
Innovaccer runs a health data platform that unifies patient records from electronic medical…
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Cloudera: Why the Sidecar Model Outperforms the Handoff
Cloudera builds enterprise data platform software — it has been in the Hadoop ecosystem…
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A Big 4 Firm: The Cobbler's Shoes Problem, at Enterprise Scale
There's a particular irony in the fact that one of the world's largest consulting firms…
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Gusto: The Pragmatic Case Against Microservices
When Gusto's engineering team needed to add Time Tracking to its payroll platform…
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