01 — Combining Patterns

Patterns

A book-shaped table of contents for reusable engineering patterns spanning object-oriented design, enterprise architecture, distributed systems, messaging, APIs, cloud infrastructure, observability, security, concurrency, AI/agentic systems, and organizational design — grounded in production experience at scale.

02 — Anti-Patterns

Distributed Monolith, Shared Database, God Object, Big Ball of Mud, Chatty Services, Golden Hammer, and Vendor Lock-in — the failure modes that look like patterns but are really a pattern applied without its context.

03 — Pattern Case Studies

How Amazon, Google, Netflix, Uber, Stripe, LinkedIn, and Cloudflare have combined these patterns in production — to be researched and written company by company, not as a single pass.

Patterns

A book-shaped table of contents for reusable engineering patterns spanning object-oriented design, enterprise architecture, distributed systems, messaging, APIs, cloud infrastructure, observability, security, concurrency, AI/agentic systems, and organizational design — grounded in production experience at scale.

02 — Pattern Selection & Trade-offs

How to choose between competing patterns under real forces: naming the context, weighing trade-offs and consequences, composing multiple patterns together, and recognizing when a pattern has outlived its fit.