Templates

Introduction: A Belief We All Grew Up With For a long time, environment parity was treated as a golden rule in software engineering. Keep development, staging, and production as identical as possible, and you’ll avoid nasty surprises. If it works in staging, it should work in production. Simple, comforting, and at one time mostly true. […]

Introduction: When “Where” Stops Mattering For most of the cloud era, location has been one of the most important decisions architects make. Pick a region. Add a backup region. Replicate data. Route traffic. Repeat. Regions gave us structure, safety, and predictability when the cloud was young. But the way software is used today is very