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API Gateways, Service Discovery, and Service Mesh: The Traffic Control Layer of Modern Systems

June 1, 2026Architecture Patterns

Once a system stops being a single process, traffic control becomes an architecture problem. API gateways, service registries, and service meshes solve related but different coordination problems, and mixing them up leads to bad designs.

Monoliths, Microservices, and Serverless: Picking a Backend Shape for Frontend Teams

May 30, 2026System Design Foundations

Monolith, modular monolith, microservices, and serverless are not status symbols. They are different ways of paying for complexity, and frontend teams feel the cost in release coordination, latency, consistency, and operational failure modes.

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