Author name: Vang Do

I’m a software engineer and technical architect who enjoys designing scalable systems, creating clean APIs, and solving real-world problems with code. With a background in Java, Scala, and TypeScript, and hands-on experience across AWS and Azure Cloud, I focus on building reliable backend services and integrating well-performing systems. On this blog, I want to share what I’ve learned from years of building and breaking things so others can do more of the former and less of the latter.

monolithic to microservices

Application Engineering

Designing and Managing Service Dependencies in Microservices

Vang Do / 2nd October 2025

In the world of software development, we often hear about the shift from monolithic to microservices architecture. If a monolithic […]

Application Engineering

Part 3 – Akka Persistence in Production: The Coffee Shop That Became a Global Franchise

Vang Do / 5th September 2025

Welcome back to the Akka Persistence series! In Part 1: From Coffee Shops to Game Save/Load, we explored what Akka

Akka Persistence

Application Engineering

Part 2 – Inside Akka Persistence: The Akka Coffee Shop’s Secret

Vang Do / 5th September 2025

Welcome back to our series on Akka Persistence! In our previous article, we explored a theoretical Akka-powered coffee shop to

the coffee shop

Application Engineering

Part 1 – What is Akka Persistence? From Coffee Shops to Game Save/Load

Vang Do / 5th September 2025

Have you ever heard of Akka and the power of its “Actors”? Imagine them as diligent employees, working independently and