Tag: software architecture for startups
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Loose Coupling Is a Survival Strategy
How abstraction, clear ownership, and designing for change help early-stage teams scale without collapsing under their own weight. Very early in my engineering career, I worked on a student information system with a long and complicated lineage. It started in the 1990s, built by a self-taught programmer inside a single school district. Over the years,…
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Microservices vs Monolith: What’s Right for Your Startup?
When startups transition from a proof of concept to delivering an MVP and beyond, one of the most critical decisions they face is choosing the right architectural style for their software systems. Should you go with the simplicity of a monolith, or adopt the scalability of microservices? The answer isn’t one-size-fits-all—it depends on your current…