// Articles
Guides, tutorials, and comparisons to help you build better backend applications.
The signals that it's time, and a strangler-fig playbook for extracting the first service without a rewrite
How to structure many services in one repository, share code without hidden coupling, and decide between monorepo and polyrepo
Service boundaries, a database per service, sync vs async calls, contracts, tracing, and independent deploys, with the failure each practice prevents
Understanding Anthropic's protocol for connecting AI models to tools and data
Which frameworks produce the best results when AI writes the code