The Buy Path That Never Worked
The DShop monolith was abandoned with a NotImplementedException sitting directly in the order path. Reading its honest ledger is a masterclass in what an unfinished codebase confesses about itself.
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The Monolith and the Swarm
DShop exists as one deployable and as nine services built from the same requirements. Read side by side, the two builds show which decisions were decisions and which were defaults.
One Shop, Every Shape
DevMentors built the same e-commerce shop twice - once as a monolith, once as nine services - with two gateways and two frontends. This series reads the whole estate as one artefact.