Archive | Tech Architect Insights

Jan 25, 2026

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8 min read

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.

Bogdan Colța

When Your Safety Net Becomes a Noose: Mastering Retry Storms

Jan 18, 2026

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9 min read

When Your Safety Net Becomes a Noose: Mastering Retry Storms

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

Bogdan Colța

Stream-Aligned Teams With Deployments That Don't Block

Jan 11, 2026

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10 min read

Stream-Aligned Teams With Deployments That Don't Block

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

Bogdan Colța

Never Lose Another Event: The Outbox Pattern That Actually Works

Jan 4, 2026

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9 min read

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.

Bogdan Colța

The Distributed Monolith is Worse Than the Monolith

Dec 28, 2025

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9 min read

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.

Bogdan Colța