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SQS, SNS and the Event-Driven Backbone of Composable Commerce

Mar 4, 2024

The order-placed fan-out pattern, visibility timeout as a reliability contract, Dead Letter Queues as revenue alerts, idempotent consumers, and SNS for zero-code PBC subscription extensibility.

#Event-Driven Architecture

#MACH Architecture

#Loose Coupling

#Async Architecture

One Platform, Three Databases: RDS, DynamoDB and Redshift in Composable Commerce

Feb 26, 2024

Polyglot persistence for composable PBCs - Aurora for Order Management, DynamoDB for Cart and Session, Redshift as the cross-PBC analytics layer, and the data ownership contract that keeps PBCs truly independent.

#Polyglot Persistence

#Data Architecture

Zero-Trust Between Your Own Services: IAM for Composable Commerce

Feb 19, 2024

One IAM role per PBC, eliminating credentials from code, cross-PBC SigV4 authorisation patterns, Secrets Manager auto-rotation, and blast radius containment through least-privilege design.

The Elasticity Engine: ELB, CloudWatch and Auto Scaling for Composable Commerce

Feb 12, 2024

ALB path-based routing for PBC dispatch, business-level CloudWatch metrics beyond CPU, per-PBC Auto Scaling strategies, and connection draining for zero-downtime composable deployments.

#Composable Commerce

#AWS

#Elastic Load Balancing

VPC Design Patterns for Composable Commerce: Isolation Without Friction

Feb 5, 2024

The reference subnet topology for multi-tier composable platforms, Security Groups vs NACLs defence-in-depth, VPC Endpoints for keeping PBC traffic private, and Transit Gateway for multi-team deployments.

#Microservices Networking

Sizing EC2 for Composable Commerce: Why Your PBCs Don't All Need the Same Instance

Jan 29, 2024

Instance family selection, golden AMI deployment contracts, Reserved vs Spot pricing strategies, and the stateless PBC imperative - the compute decisions that drive cost and resilience.

#Stateless Architecture

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