Durable Execution Architecture: Temporal, Restate and DBOS (2026)
Durable execution explained: how event-sourced replay makes workflows crash-proof - deterministic code, event history, Temporal vs Restate vs DBOS trade-offs and failure modes.
The WebAssembly Component Model & wasmCloud at the Edge (2026)
WebAssembly Component Model explained: WIT interfaces, WASI Preview 2, composition and wasmCloud's actor/lattice runtime for portable edge workloads - architecture, cold starts and trade-offs in 2026.
KEDA Event-Driven Autoscaling on Kubernetes: Architecture (2026)
KEDA event-driven autoscaling explained: how the scaler, metrics adapter and controller drive HPA from queue depth and event sources - scale-to-zero, cold starts, 60+ scalers and production tuning on Kubernetes in 2026.
Change Data Capture with Debezium: Streaming Architecture (2026)
Change data capture with Debezium: log-based CDC architecture - the transaction-log reader, Kafka Connect topology, schema evolution, exactly-once delivery, snapshots and the outbox pattern for reliable event streaming in 2026.
ClickHouse vs Druid vs Pinot: Real-Time OLAP ADR (2026)
ClickHouse vs Druid vs Pinot: a real-time OLAP architecture decision record - ingestion, indexing, upserts, concurrency, star-schema joins and the cost/latency trade-offs for user-facing analytics in 2026.
Database Branching and Ephemeral Environments: An Architecture ADR (2026)
Database branching for ephemeral environments: copy-on-write storage, branch-per-PR workflows, data masking, schema-diff migration testing and the cost/consistency trade-offs of Neon, PlanetScale and Postgres CoW in 2026.
Airflow vs Dagster vs Prefect: Data Orchestration Compared (2026)
Airflow vs Dagster vs Prefect compared: execution model, asset vs task orchestration, backfills, dynamic pipelines, observability, and a decision matrix for 2026.
Kafka KRaft in Production: Migrating Off ZooKeeper — A Hands-On Guide (2026)
A hands-on Kafka KRaft tutorial: the metadata quorum, migrating a ZooKeeper cluster to KRaft, controller sizing, rollback, and operating KRaft in production in 2026.
The WebAssembly Component Model on the Server: Wasm vs Containers (2026)
An architecture decision record on the WebAssembly Component Model server-side: WASI Preview 2, cold-start, isolation, and when Wasm beats containers in 2026.
Multi-Region Active-Active Database Architecture (2026)
A multi-region active-active database architecture decision record: consistency models, conflict resolution, CRDTs, failover, and the latency-cost trade-offs.