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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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Architecture before code.

Architecture before code.

Modules before scale.

Modules before scale.

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