How to Decide When to Break Up a Monolith: Signals and False Positives Understanding when the monolith is no longer the right fit for our situation. Microservices are like candy: you shouldn’t overdo it, or you’ll end up with a bigger problem than the one you started with. The monolith isn’t always bad: when and how to use it The monolith is often portrayed as a monster to be defeated, but the truth is that in the early stage of a product, it remains the most solid, economical, and fast way to evolve software.

Ideal Technology Stack for a Shipping Platform Choosing the right technology stack for a modern logistics platform means guaranteeing scalability, resilience, and performance in a sector where errors are not tolerated. The goal of this article is to outline the stack which, based on my hands-on experience, allows you to build and maintain a reliable system over time—one suitable for a mature product with a consolidated customer base. A B2B shipping platform is, in every respect, a mission-critical service.

From Maintenance to Product: the mindset shift that saved my career When you spend every day immersed in code, processes, systems, and urgent requests, you risk losing sight of a key truth: maintenance keeps the present alive, but only vision builds the future. For years, I thought that “keeping everything running” was enough. Until I realized I was keeping myself stuck as well. This article comes from that very mental shift that changed the way I work, lead teams, and look at technology: no longer as an endless series of interventions, but as a living product that grows.

CTO Hands-on Why a CTO Still Needs to Get Their Hands into the Code Being a CTO today doesn’t just mean leading a team, defining a technological vision, or negotiating budgets. It also means maintaining a solid connection with the raw material of our work: software. Being hands-on doesn’t mean writing code every day, but preserving the ability to “feel” the system, understand its dynamics, and recognize what is simple, what is difficult, and what is dangerous.