Tag: distributed-systems
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When Microservices Met Sprawl: Reining in Anti-Patterns
The Weekly Radar The Context Microservices remain the go-to architectural style for scaling teams and applications, yet the rush to break monoliths has exposed a surge of anti-patterns. According to the “Top 7 Microservices Anti-Patterns in 2025” report, organizations are routinely building “distributed monoliths,” overloading their networks with chatty RPC calls and duplicating data stores…
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Serverless at the Crossroads: Balancing Agility and Hidden Costs
WEEKLY RADAR The Context Serverless architecture has re-emerged as the hottest debate in cloud system design. With Gartner’s prediction that 50% of new cloud workloads will be serverless by 2025, developers are racing to adopt Function-as-a-Service platforms like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions. Proponents cite automatic scaling, pay-per-execution billing, and reduced infrastructure…
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Mastering Kubernetes Complexity with Platform Engineering
The Weekly Radar The Context Over the past year, Kubernetes has entrenched itself as the de facto standard for container orchestration. The System Design Statistics & Trends 2025 report notes that 87% of large-scale deployments now run on Kubernetes, up from 75% in late 2023 [4]. This surge reflects its ecosystem maturity—CRDs, service meshes, and…
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