Technology Explained Without the Jargon Tax
The Standish Group found 63% of software projects still fail, but the reason isn't what you think. Analysis of 32,000 teams reveals poor technical decisions in the first two weeks cause 41% of failures — not bad requirements or scope creep.
After migrating 47 microservices from polyrepo to monorepo, we cut deployment time by 64%. Here's the data on when monorepos beat polyrepos, exact tooling costs ($49-299/month), and the team size threshold where everything flips.
Most microservices migrations stall halfway through. This six-step recovery plan shows how to stabilize a failing migration by freezing new extraction, mapping real dependencies, consolidating observability, implementing circuit breakers, moving to async messaging, and creating rollback procedures — based on patterns that saved 14 months of rework.
