https://www.nemunai.re/tags/architecture/ Recent content in Architecture on nemunaire's blog Hugo en blog@nemunai.re (nemunaire) blog@nemunai.re (nemunaire) Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:08:00 +0700 https://www.nemunai.re/post/complexity-is-the-lazy-solution/ Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:08:00 +0700blog@nemunai.re (nemunaire) https://www.nemunai.re/post/complexity-is-the-lazy-solution/ <p>In software engineering, complexity is often seen as a sign of competence.</p> <p>Indeed, a simple system looks suspicious, while a complex system looks serious.</p> <h2 id="what-is-the-value-of-a-decade-of-success">What is the value of a decade of success?</h2> <p>In my final year of engineering school, I built a CTF platform. At the time, no software like <a href="https://github.com/CTFd/CTFd">CTFd</a> existed. Everything had to be built from scratch.</p> <p>It took me a lot of thinking to arrive at an architecture that looks simple in hindsight: serve static files, generated on demand, to reduce the attack surface. Standard Unix services glued the components together. Low-level containers isolated services from one another.</p> https://www.nemunai.re/post/pragmatic-architecture-for-productions/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000blog@nemunai.re (nemunaire) https://www.nemunai.re/post/pragmatic-architecture-for-productions/ <p>Reading some discussions between developers or software architects, one might think that the smallest web application today requires a distributed infrastructure, a Kubernetes cluster, and several specialized cloud services.</p> <p>Yet many web services (including those that receive several thousand visitors per day) can work perfectly well with a much simpler architecture.</p> <p>Here is a hands-on account of the infrastructure I use for my production projects, some of which exceed 5,000 daily visitors, and which I also applied for years during a cybersecurity competition with more than 250 on-site participants.</p>