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Ten Architecture Principles That Separate Great Composable Platforms from Expensive Distributed Monoliths

Apr 15, 2024

The synthesis of the entire series: designing for unpredictable failure, the stateless PBC constraint, security as infrastructure, polyglot persistence, and why the composable migration is an architecture not a project.

#Composable Commerce

#AWS

#Architecture Best Practices

#MACH Architecture

#Well-Architected Framework

#Cloud Native

#Microservices

#Digital Transformation

AWS Compliance for Composable Commerce: What You Inherit and What You Still Own

Apr 8, 2024

The three-layer responsibility model for composable platforms, AWS Artifact for QSA evidence, Config auto-remediation rules, and GDPR right-to-erasure implemented as a cross-PBC cascade.

Securing 15 Services at Once: The Security Architecture of Composable Commerce

Apr 1, 2024

Defence-in-depth across six independent layers, WAF rules tuned for composable storefronts, the Payment PBC PCI isolation pattern, IMDSv2 enforcement, and CloudTrail as incident response infrastructure.

The Infrastructure Glue: CloudFront, Kinesis and CloudFormation for Composable Commerce

Mar 25, 2024

CloudFront cache behaviours per PBC path, Kinesis Streams for real-time personalisation signals, Kinesis Firehose for the analytics pipeline, and CloudFormation as the deployment contract between platform and PBC teams.

#Infrastructure as Code

ElastiCache: Making 15 API Calls Feel Like One to the Shopper

Mar 18, 2024

Cache-aside per PBC with versioned keys, TTL as a business decision, Redis data structures for sessions and flash-sale inventory counters, atomic operations, and Multi-AZ failover for session continuity.

#Caching Architecture

#MACH Architecture

#Performance

#Flash Sales

Route 53 as the Global Traffic Director for Your Composable Commerce Platform

Mar 11, 2024

Alias records at the zone apex, all five routing policies mapped to composable commerce requirements, health checks that test business readiness not just ports, and GDPR compliance through geolocation routing.