Decisions
A transparent log of architectural and technical decisions I've made throughout my career. Each entry documents the context, alternatives considered, and the reasoning behind the choice.
6 decisions documented
Transitioning to Remote-First Team StructurePost-pandemic, our team was split between office and remote workers. The hybrid model created two classes of employees and made collaboration inconsistent. We needed to decide on a...Read decisionAdopting Event-Driven Architecture for Order ProcessingOur synchronous order processing pipeline was becoming a bottleneck. Long-running operations blocked the checkout flow, and failures in downstream services caused cascading issues.Read decisionChoosing TypeScript Over JavaScript for New ServicesOur team was starting development on a new set of microservices. We needed to decide whether to use TypeScript or JavaScript for the codebase.Read decisionImplementing Feature Flags for Safer DeploymentsOur deployment process was all-or-nothing. New features went live to all users immediately upon deployment, making rollbacks disruptive and limiting our ability to test in producti...Read decisionMonorepo vs Polyrepo for MicroservicesOur microservices architecture had grown to 30+ services spread across separate repositories. Coordinating changes across services was becoming increasingly difficult.Read decisionChoosing PostgreSQL Over MongoDB for New ServicesWe were designing a new service for managing customer subscriptions with complex billing logic. The team debated between PostgreSQL and MongoDB, which we had used for other service...Read decision