Systems Design & Architecture

It’s not about knowing the right answer. It’s about asking the right questions first. Continue reading on Stackademic »

Topology rewrite not bug repair. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Shopify Staff Engineer Guilherme Carreiro discusses building and scaling highly customizable platforms. Using Shopify’s Liquid theme system as a case study, he

Topology rewrite not bug repair. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

And honestly, it was a wild ride. Continue reading on Stackademic »

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Topology rewrite not bug repair. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Topology rewrite not bug repair. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Concurrency is byproduct of capability design not bottleneck to patch. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Concurrency is byproduct of capability design not bottleneck to patch. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

The Great Showdown: Scalability vs. Performance - Which One Reigns Supreme? Ever felt like...

Concurrency is byproduct of capability design not bottleneck to patch. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Concurrency is byproduct of capability design not bottleneck to patch. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Set Law Applied to Context ​ .me thinks in spaces. Not schemas. Not tables. Not object classes. A space is a region of meaning (context) that can contain other

Concurrency is byproduct of capability design not bottleneck to patch. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

One of the biggest mindset shifts in frontend engineering happens when you realise that not all state is the same. Continue reading on Medium »

As a beginner developer, one thing that constantly confused me was understanding the real difference between six terms that everyone in… Continue reading on Med

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Topology rewrite not bug repair. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

If you’ve ever wondered why your Swift app feels lightning-fast one day and sluggish the next, you’re not alone. I recently went down a… Continue reading on Med

Topology rewrite not bug repair. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

In 2025 we inherited the public facing search index for Hytales treasure hunt system. The index...

The Problem We Were Actually Solving We werent just chasing p99 latency; we were solving a...

The Problem We Were Actually Solving I still remember the day our treasure hunt engine...

Real-time systems expose architectural weaknesses immediately. Continue reading on Medium »

Service designers love the language of systems. We map complexity. We expose dependencies. We identify breakdowns between people… Continue reading on Medium »

Concurrency is byproduct of capability design not bottleneck to patch. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Building apps became easier. Building successful apps did not. Continue reading on Cubed »

Introduction In modern systems, messaging queues are one of the most essential building...

Side projects are, for me, a space to try new things on one hand, and to solve a problem in my head...

Concurrency is byproduct of capability design not bottleneck to patch. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Topology rewrite not bug repair. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Designing a Responsive Browser-Based Ebook Converter Without Melting the Main Thread Have...

How each method type shapes your domain logic. Continue reading on Medium »

Microservices are often presented as the natural destination for modern software architecture, yet many organizations adopt them before… Continue reading on Med

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Why CRDTs can't handle financial ledgers, how Event Sourcing made auditors thank us for the first time in 10 years, and a Distributed Saga that survived a trans

Prologue A while ago, I decided to develop a fully accessible main navigation component in React and...

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

When state exists everywhere, ownership disappears and the application becomes impossible to reason about. Continue reading on Angular Engineering »

Why your dashboards stay green while production burns — 5 lessons from 15 years of distributed-systems failures. Continue reading on Medium »

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79