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 Structure Post-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 decision Adopting Event-Driven Architecture for Order Processing Our synchronous order processing pipeline was becoming a bottleneck. Long-running operations blocked the checkout flow, and failures in downstream services caused cascading issues. Read decision Choosing TypeScript Over JavaScript for New Services Our team was starting development on a new set of microservices. We needed to decide whether to use TypeScript or JavaScript for the codebase. Read decision Implementing Feature Flags for Safer Deployments Our 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 decision Monorepo vs Polyrepo for Microservices Our microservices architecture had grown to 30+ services spread across separate repositories. Coordinating changes across services was becoming increasingly difficult. Read decision Choosing PostgreSQL Over MongoDB for New Services We 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