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Tech Architect Insights is a weekly newsletter and free 5-day email course that teaches you how to think in systems, make solid technical decisions, and communicate like a leader.

35+ in-depth lessons already shipped on real-world architecture problems.

Logs Are Not Enough

Logs Are Not Enough

Tech Architect Insights Lesson #38 - How to slash your Mean Time To Resolution from four hours to thirty minutes by making every request traceable across services, queues, and databases.

Jan 25, 2026

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8 min read

When Your Safety Net Becomes a Noose: Mastering Retry Storms

When Your Safety Net Becomes a Noose: Mastering Retry Storms

Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #37 - Small hiccups shouldn't trigger self-inflicted chaos.

Jan 18, 2026

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9 min read

Stream-Aligned Teams With Deployments That Don't Block

Stream-Aligned Teams With Deployments That Don't Block

Tech Architect Insights -Lesson #36 - Stop deep pages from melting your database.

Jan 11, 2026

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10 min read

Bulkhead Architecture With Failures That Stay Contained

Bulkhead Architecture With Failures That Stay Contained

Tech Architect Insights Lesson #39 - Keep Tier-3 failures away from login and checkout. Permanently.

Feb 1, 2026

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8 min read



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Never Lose Another Event: The Outbox Pattern That Actually Works

Never Lose Another Event: The Outbox Pattern That Actually Works

Tech Architect Insights Lesson #35 - Stop "why is data different?" incidents. Choose consistency deliberately. Never lose events again.

Jan 4, 2026

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9 min read

The Distributed Monolith is Worse Than the Monolith

The Distributed Monolith is Worse Than the Monolith

Tech Architect Insights Lesson #34 - Diagnose microservice coupling and undo the worst splits before you scale them.

Dec 28, 2025

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9 min read

Locking and Deadlocks with fewer surprises

Locking and Deadlocks with fewer surprises

Tech Architect Insights Lesson #33 - Stop “random timeouts” by making locks visible and fixable.

Dec 21, 2025

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8 min read

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Queries and Indexes With Predictable Latency

Tech Architect Insights Lesson #31 - Keep p95 stable by designing queries and indexes on purpose

Dec 7, 2025

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Data Contracts for Events With Safe Evolution

Tech Architect Insights Lesson #30 -Ship events that change without breaking consumers.

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Secret Rotation With Zero Downtime

Tech Architect Insights Lesson #29 - Rotate keys like a routine chore, not a midnight drama.

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Error Contracts Across Services

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Caching Without Regret

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