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Architecture, trade-offs, and lessons from building production systems in Java, TypeScript, and the messy in-between.
5 posts
How Spring Modulith turns architectural conventions into verifiable boundaries inside a Spring Boot monolith, and when that's worth more than distributing everything.
IDs, money, email, and status modeled as primitive types. Why it scatters rules, blinds the compiler, and how Value Objects fix it.
Finding the context boundaries is mandatory in a system that grows. Turning each one into a microservice is optional, and almost always too early. How to split the model without inheriting the cost of a fleet of services you never needed.
The antipattern that looks like DDD but isn't, from code to refactor: when to build a rich model and when anemic is enough.
The tactical patterns of DDD, from concept to code: when the investment pays off and when a CRUD is enough.