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When to Split a Service: A Boundary Checklist

2025-02-14 · Min-jun Park

When to Split a Service: A Boundary Checklist

Five signals that a module is ready for its own deployment unit — and three false positives we see in reviews.

boundaries · system design

Documenting Rejected Options

2024-11-03 · Elena Voronova

Documenting Rejected Options

Why your ADR index needs a graveyard section and how to keep it readable.

documentation · ADR

Error Budgets Without the Theater

2025-01-22 · Aisha Rahman

Error Budgets Without the Theater

Practical SLO math for teams that do not have a dedicated SRE function.

SLO · observability

Platform Roadmaps That Engineers Trust

2024-09-18 · David Okonkwo

Platform Roadmaps That Engineers Trust

Capability maps beat feature lists for internal platform communication.

platform · team patterns

Chaos Experiments Your Manager Will Read

2025-03-05 · David Okonkwo

Chaos Experiments Your Manager Will Read

Hypothesis templates that connect reliability work to business language.

resilience · chaos