The promise of microservices migration is compelling in theory and frequently punishing in practice. Before committing to a decomposition effort, engineering leaders need an honest assessment of how deeply their system's concerns are actually entangled. This framework provides the tools to make that assessment with precision—and to determine whether splitting, consolidating, or incrementally modernizing is the right path forward.
Sep 04, 2026
What begins on a whiteboard rarely survives contact with production infrastructure. This case study documents how SE Projects designed, built, and scaled a real-time collaboration platform to serve more than 50,000 active users — including the architectural pivots, database decisions, and hard-won lessons that shaped the final product.
Jul 11, 2026