Practical resources for building scalable products, platforms and teams

Microservices Best Practices
Microservices best practices from teams who've seen the failure modes: boundaries, communication, data, operability, and how to migrate without building a distributed monolith.
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Legacy System Modernization: A Playbook
How to modernize legacy systems without freezing the business. Covers the 6 Rs, the strangler fig pattern, data migration and operational handover, from teams who do it embedded.
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What is a Center of Excellence
What a Center of Excellence is, the models that work, and how to build an engineering CoE that owns architecture, platform and delivery without becoming a bottleneck.
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The Real Cost of Vendor Lock-in
Vendor lock-in is a financial problem as much as a technical one. How to calculate the true 5-year total cost of dependency, and how to design your way out of it.
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Architecture Decision Records: A Practical Guide
What Architecture Decision Records are, why they matter, and how to write good ones. Includes a copy-ready ADR template and the anti-patterns to avoid.
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What Is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)?
What retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is, how it works, when to use it instead of fine-tuning, and the best practices that keep a RAG system accurate in production.
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