Author

James Chen

Principal Solutions Architect

James designs distributed systems for logistics and fintech clients, with a particular interest in event-driven architectures and the failure modes nobody plans for.

Written by James Chen

Building a Scalable Microservices Architecture
Guide AI & Machine Learning 2 min read

Building a Scalable Microservices Architecture

How to decouple a monolith into independently deployable services using Docker, Kubernetes and a service mesh.

James Chen
Instrumenting a Distributed System You Can Actually Debug
Guide AI & Machine Learning 1 min read

Instrumenting a Distributed System You Can Actually Debug

Traces, structured logs and the few metrics worth alerting on - and why dashboards are not observability.

James Chen
Hardening a Kubernetes Cluster for Regulated Workloads
Guide AI & Machine Learning 1 min read

Hardening a Kubernetes Cluster for Regulated Workloads

Network policy, admission control and secrets handling, in the order an auditor asks about them.

James Chen