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We've moved past autocomplete. Spec-to-deploy agentic workflows now let a single engineer own architecture, coding and testing for a whole app.

Subdomain-based isolation with separate databases per tenant costs more upfront, but it buys you clean data boundaries and simpler compliance.

Lambda and SQS are great for bursty workloads, but sustained, high-throughput traffic is often cheaper and more predictable on right-sized EC2.

Migrating a monolith to microservices only pays off once you've hit real scaling pain — do it too early and you pay the distributed-systems tax for nothing.

I've shipped production systems in both, and the honest answer is it rarely matters as much as people think.

Swapping a naive SQL LIKE search for a properly tuned Elasticsearch index took one of our platforms from 2.1s to 200ms per query.