The full Refactix archive. Hands-on writing on AI-driven development, cloud infrastructure, and modern software architecture.
How GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude actually compare for day-to-day coding work. Setup, productivity numbers, ROI math, and where each tool falls down.
How to get AWS Lambda cold starts under 100ms with SnapStart, smarter runtime choices, smaller packages, and provisioned concurrency without blowing the budget.
The cost math, migration notes, and decision framework I use when picking ECS Fargate or EKS for a workload on AWS.
Production-grade Kafka patterns for event-driven systems: idempotent producers, transactional writes, at-least-once consumers, schema evolution, and the error handling that keeps things alive at 3 AM.
When CQRS and event sourcing earn their keep, how to implement them in production, and the consistency, versioning, and projection-rebuild problems nobody warns you about.
How REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and tRPC actually compare in 2025. Real benchmarks, migration paths, and the decision framework I use for picking one (or stacking several).
How to tell when your microservices are hurting more than helping, and how to migrate to a modular monolith without losing what was good about the split.
A practical decision matrix for picking between database-per-service and shared databases in 2025, with migration paths, saga patterns, and the cost numbers that actually move the needle.
How to build AI assistants with persistent memory that learn your business patterns over time, so your team stops re-explaining the same context every session.