4 articles tagged architecture.
Every integration starts with the same question: how do we talk to Odoo? The honest trade-offs between the stock JSON-2 API, community REST modules and a purpose-built gateway — and the one question that picks the right door per consumer.
Storefront, mobile app, carrier webhooks, marketing tools — everything wants to talk to Odoo. Let them all speak JSON-RPC directly and every consumer inherits Odoo's internals. We give them one door instead.
Before a two-developer project grows a Redis, a RabbitMQ and an Elasticsearch, look at what the database you already run can do. SKIP LOCKED queues, tsvector search, LISTEN/NOTIFY — and the measured signals that tell you when to graduate.
Microservices solve an organisational problem, not a technical one. How we decide between a modular monolith and distributed services for custom builds, and the signals that justify the split.