Insights
Practical notes on architecture, performance and scaling production systems.
Decoupling Critical Commerce Flows with RabbitMQ
June 9, 2026
2 min
The customer-facing path should do one thing synchronously: persist the order. Everything else belongs in recoverable background work.
ERP Integration Patterns That Hold Up in Production
May 26, 2026
2 min
Wrong stock, missing orders, manual reconciliation - ERP integrations fail quietly. Ownership rules, event-driven flows and observability prevent it.
Keeping Large Symfony Codebases Maintainable
May 12, 2026
2 min
The framework is rarely the problem - the architecture that grew inside it is. How capability boundaries and strict conventions keep delivery fast.
Shopware or Shopify? An Engineering Perspective on Platform Choice
April 28, 2026
2 min
Feature comparisons miss the point. The real question is where your complexity lives - and who will own it.
MySQL in eCommerce: Finding the Real Bottlenecks
April 14, 2026
2 min
Before buying bigger instances: N+1 queries, mismatched indexes and lock contention cause most database pain - and they are all fixable.
Running eCommerce on AWS: Reliability Without Overengineering
March 31, 2026
2 min
Good commerce infrastructure is boring: a small set of well-understood services, sized for your real load profile, with cost as an engineering metric.