// Articles
Guides, tutorials, and comparisons to help you build better backend applications.
Why teams look past Backstage, and how developer portals differ from platforms that provision and run your backend
A field guide to PaaS, internal developer platforms, and backend platforms for teams deciding where to build and run
The self-service layer between developers and infrastructure, the problem it solves as an org grows, and the shapes it takes in practice
What PaaS is, the providers worth knowing, the tradeoffs, and when it stops being the right fit
The tool categories a platform team assembles, what each one does, and where the lines fall between them
What a gateway does, the patterns worth knowing, and when a small system is better off without one
Synchronous calls versus events, the tradeoffs of each, and the reliability work that makes either one hold up
What real module boundaries look like, how to keep them from rotting, and exactly what you trade against microservices
The signals that it's time, and a strangler-fig playbook for extracting the first service without a rewrite
ECS, EKS, and Lambda compared, plus the networking, discovery, and CI/CD work that trips teams up
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