Architecture

Architecture 14 min

Adding Real-Time Features to a Microservice Architecture Without Breaking It

Microservices assume a request arrives and goes away. A WebSocket arrives and stays for four hours, and every assumption underneath the architecture is quietly wrong for it. How to add a real-time layer without making all five services stateful, and the deploy problem that follows.

May 12, 2026

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Architecture 16 min

Microservices Behind an API Gateway: A Real Case Study

Five services, one gateway, and the honest reason we split a Django app that was working fine. Service boundaries that survived, the two I drew wrong and pulled back, what belongs in a gateway and what must never, and the failure modes that only exist once a call can cross a network.

Apr 28, 2026

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