6 posts
The impulse to split your monolith into microservices hits every growing startup. Here's the framework I use to decide whether the split is premature or overdue — and the modular monolith pattern that buys you time.
Read →Before you add Redis, Elasticsearch, a message queue, a cron service, and a vector database, consider that Postgres can do all of those things. Here's how — and where the pattern breaks.
Read →You don't need a $5K/month Datadog bill to know what's happening in your application. Here's the observability stack I install at seed-stage startups — effective, cheap, and ready to scale.
Read →A practical guide to building multi-tenant SaaS on Postgres — why shared-schema with row-level security wins at seed stage, the implementation patterns that work, and the five mistakes that cause data leaks.
Read →Your cloud bill is telling you what your engineering team actually values. Here's how to read it, the specific waste patterns I find in almost every audit, and how to cut 20-40% without touching user-facing functionality.
Read →An opinionated, deliberately boring tech stack for seed-stage SaaS startups — the specific tools I recommend, the ones I avoid, and why the exciting choices almost always slow you down.
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