In software, auditing means tracking user or system activities for various needs, such as business or security. An example would be - user X tried to access resource Y. When I encuntered issues with auditing at my current company, I looked for solutions online, most of which, were either vague, lackluster or plain simple. That is why, after having implemented and dealt with auditing at scale, I would like to share my thoughts. In this post, I will show the various methods for implementing auditing together with code examples and pros and cons.

After having written and implemented several microservice architectures, I wanted to have a go at explaining microservices from my point of view and share my insights. In this post I will explain what are microservices, what are their pros and cons, how they communicate and the different approaches towards building microservices.

The majority of the posts I see about microservices talk about the differences vs monoliths and how everyone, including myself, is rushing to build microservices in this fast paced world we live in. Recently, I read Implementing Domain Driven Design by Vaughn Vernon, which seemed unrelated to microservices at first but soon changed my perspective on things. What I experienced, like the title suggests, was an epiphany that I was building microservices wrong all along. In fact, I was building smaller monoliths, separated by a url subdomain. Head Explodes! In this short post, I will show a couple of symptoms that I found are a sign your microservices architecture might suffer in the long run.