ROMHARSHAN TECHNICAL JOURNAL

Architecture, AI, cloud and engineering—explained from production experience.

Long-form technical articles, system design guidance, code examples and architecture decisions for engineers building real systems.

LATEST

Latest articles — Page 6

Original technical writing designed around practical implementation, architecture trade-offs and production lessons.

Showing 61–72 of 77 published articles12 articles per page
Distributed Systems

Saga Pattern in Flight, Hotel, Payment and Procurement Workflows

How I apply Saga orchestration to real multi-step business workflows such as flight/hotel booking, payment, RFx and procurement where one ACID transaction cannot span all services and providers.

1 Sept 2026 · 1 views
Distributed Systems

Service Discovery in Microservices: Kubernetes DNS, Consul and Cloud Registries

How I approach service discovery in dynamic microservice environments using Kubernetes Services/DNS, registries and platform-native routing without hard-coded instance addresses.

1 Sept 2026 · 1 views
Distributed Systems

API Gateway Pattern in Production: Kong, AWS, Azure, Spring and NestJS

How I have used API gateway patterns across financial services, retail master-data, procurement/e-auction and travel platforms, including routing, authentication, throttling, resilience and gateway failure design.

1 Sept 2026 · 1 views
Cloud & DevOps

Docker to Kubernetes: How I Have Containerized and Deployed Enterprise Applications in Real Projects

How I approach production containerization from Docker multi-stage builds through ECS/Fargate and EKS/Kubernetes, including Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Vault, probes, resources, HPA and operations.

1 Sept 2026 · 1 views
Cloud & DevOps

Production Deployment Patterns I Have Used: Rolling, Blue-Green, Canary and Zero-Downtime Releases

An experience-based production deployment guide covering rolling releases, blue-green, canary traffic from 5% to 100%, feature flags, CI/CD promotion and zero-downtime database changes.

1 Sept 2026 · 1 views
Distributed Systems

Microservices Design Patterns I Have Used in Real Enterprise Projects

An experience-based guide to the microservice patterns I have used across travel, retail master-data, financial services, procurement/RFx, e-auction and modernization projects, with links to detailed production implementations and code.

1 Sept 2026 · 1 views
Solution Architecture

How I Troubleshoot Production Systems: A Solution Architect's Guide

A production incident playbook for architects and senior engineers covering latency, CPU, memory, databases, Kafka lag, Kubernetes, dependencies, observability and recovery decisions.

25 Aug 2026 · 9 views
Backend Engineering

Java/J2EE to Spring Boot: Enterprise Architecture & Interview Guide for Senior Engineers

A practical guide to the evolution from J2EE to Spring Boot, with senior-level coverage of transactions, JPA, Kafka, security, resilience, Kubernetes and production architecture.

25 Aug 2026 · 5 views
Data Architecture

Hadoop to Modern Data Platforms: HDFS, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake & Lakehouse Architecture

A modern architecture guide connecting Hadoop and HDFS fundamentals with Spark, Kafka, object storage, Snowflake, lakehouse patterns, governance and AI-ready data platforms.

25 Aug 2026 · 22 views
Data Architecture

Database Architecture Interview Guide: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis & Scaling

A senior-level database architecture guide covering indexes, transactions, locking, replication, sharding, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, recovery and production troubleshooting.

25 Aug 2026 · 3 views
Backend Engineering

Node.js & NestJS Enterprise Interview Guide: 40 Architecture Questions for Senior Engineers

A production-focused Node.js and NestJS interview guide covering the event loop, resilience, Kafka, databases, Redis, Kubernetes, observability and architecture trade-offs.

25 Aug 2026 · 5 views
AI & Technology Strategy

The AI Infrastructure Tax: How Data Centers Are Raising the Cost of Everyday Technology

AI data centers are consuming GPUs, HBM, DRAM, SSDs, electricity, cooling systems and copper at enormous scale. Here is how the AI infrastructure boom can affect laptop and smartphone prices, jobs, energy and ordinary users who may never use AI directly

20 Aug 2026 · 16 views