Example Verdicts
Real deliberations by the council. See the reasoning before you submit.
Should I use Vercel or AWS for hosting a Next.js SaaS app with 10K monthly users and a team of 2?
Should we migrate from DynamoDB to PostgreSQL with Citus for a multi-tenant SaaS with 2,000 tenants and 50ms p99 latency...
Should we replace our ELK stack with Grafana Loki and OpenTelemetry for a platform generating 500GB of logs per day acro...
Should we adopt OpenTofu after the HashiCorp license change, or stay on Terraform for infrastructure managing 3 AWS acco...
Should we move our CI/CD from GitHub Actions to self-hosted runners for a 50-developer team spending $8K/month on Action...
should we replace Redis with Valkey now that Redis changed its license, or stay on Redis for a 200-node deployment handl...
Should we open-source our internal deployment tool or keep it proprietary? 2 years of development, 40K lines of Go, used...
Our payment service had 3 cascading failures in 6 months — all triggered by a downstream timeout. Should we add a circ...
AWS Lambda vs Cloudflare Workers for a latency-sensitive API gateway. 200M requests/month, P99 target <50ms, currently o...
Snowflake vs self-hosted ClickHouse for a 5TB/day analytics pipeline. Team of 3 data engineers, $15K/month budget, need ...
Should a 60-person engineering org switch from project-based teams to platform/stream-aligned topology? Currently shippi...
One central warehouse vs three regional hubs for next-day delivery across the continental US? Current volume 8K orders/d...
Should we replace our manual QA inspection line with machine vision? 200K units/month, 3 shifts, 0.2% defect rate, $400K...
We have a 200K-line Django monolith serving 15K RPM. Which service should we extract first? The app has payments, notifi...
What breaks if we switch from REST to gRPC for all internal services? We have 12 microservices, 4 backend engineers, bro...
Should a 15-person startup build its own authentication system or use Auth0/Clerk? We handle financial data under SOC 2,...
At what scale does a webhook-driven SaaS architecture collapse and how should it be redesigned before that happens? We h...