What is vendor lock-in? Vendor lock-in refers to a situation where an organization becomes overly dependent on a specific vendor's products or services, making switching to alternatives costly, time-consuming, or technically difficult. Over the years, many companies have experienced frustration when trying to move away from large vendors like IBM, Microsoft, or Oracle due to contractual constraint... [read more]
April 30, 2025
Are you Google or anything close to the size of FAANG/MAMAA? Do you have 10+ tech teams in your company? Do you have multiple products? Do you have a bottleneck in your system? Do you need multiple types of databases to handle different behaviors/purposes? If your answer to all (or most of) these questions is yes, then Microservice architecture might help you split your solution into simpler block... [read more]
March 13, 2024
Serverless computing has revolutionized how we build and deploy applications in the cloud. It offers scalability, reduced infrastructure management, and cost-efficiency. Previously, I wrote an article about Serverless does not mean Lambda or FaaS!, but in this article, we will focus on different options for serverless computing in AWS and compare the benefits and pitfalls of using them. Amazon Web... [read more]
June 17, 2023
You might be in the middle of the process of migrating from a monolith application or a handful of services to a microservice architecture, and you might have good reasons for it. You have heard this new architecture can help with decoupling business logic into a number of least-dependent services that can be developed, deployed, and scaled independently. You might have already gone a step further... [read more]
July 23, 2022
What is vendor lock-in? Vendor lock-in refers to a situation where an organization becomes overly dependent on a specific vendor's products or services, making switching to alternatives costly, time-consuming, or technically difficult. Over the years, many companies have experienced frustration when trying to move away from large vendors like IBM, Microsoft, or Oracle due to contractual constraint... [read more]
April 30, 2025
Are you Google or anything close to the size of FAANG/MAMAA? Do you have 10+ tech teams in your company? Do you have multiple products? Do you have a bottleneck in your system? Do you need multiple types of databases to handle different behaviors/purposes? If your answer to all (or most of) these questions is yes, then Microservice architecture might help you split your solution into simpler block... [read more]
March 13, 2024
Serverless computing has revolutionized how we build and deploy applications in the cloud. It offers scalability, reduced infrastructure management, and cost-efficiency. Previously, I wrote an article about Serverless does not mean Lambda or FaaS!, but in this article, we will focus on different options for serverless computing in AWS and compare the benefits and pitfalls of using them. Amazon Web... [read more]
June 17, 2023
You might be in the middle of the process of migrating from a monolith application or a handful of services to a microservice architecture, and you might have good reasons for it. You have heard this new architecture can help with decoupling business logic into a number of least-dependent services that can be developed, deployed, and scaled independently. You might have already gone a step further... [read more]
July 23, 2022
