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AWS hit 99.95% uptime in 2025. If the biggest cloud can't do four nines, your startup can't either. How SLOs and error budgets actually work.
A missing timeout killed our checkout on Black Friday. Rate limiting, circuit breakers, and backpressure are the three patterns that prevent cascading failures.
Our 15-minute batch ETL caused a billing incident. Debezium reading the Postgres WAL replaced the entire pipeline. CDC setup, consumer patterns, and production gotchas.
Technical debt costs $2.41T/year. But the metaphor itself is the problem. It's a communication failure, not a code problem. Here's what to say instead.
88% of AI agents never reach production. $547B in failed AI investments. The five gaps that kill agents and the architecture that actually survives.
If a server dies mid-workflow, Temporal resumes exactly where it left off. $5B valuation, 183K developers, used by Stripe and Netflix.
Gartner: 78% of large orgs have platform teams, on track for 80% by end of 2026. Backstage has 89% market share. The shift from DevOps to platforms.
IBM paid $11B for Confluent. 90% of enterprises adopt EDA. Kafka 4.0, Flink 2.0, and the Streamhouse vision are reshaping data infrastructure.
We had 4 engineers and 11 microservices. Here's how going back to a monolith cut our costs 95% and quadrupled our shipping speed.