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The Saga Pattern for Distributed Transactions
How to implement the saga pattern for distributed transactions across microservices: orchestration versus choreography, in TypeScript, with compensation.
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Hexagonal Architecture in Practice
How to implement hexagonal architecture (ports and adapters) in a real application: clear boundaries, dependency inversion and a testable core domain.
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Building a Plugin Architecture in TypeScript
How to design a plugin system that lets users extend your application without touching its core: plugin interfaces, lifecycle hooks, resolution, sandboxing.
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Understanding Consensus Algorithms in Distributed Systems
A practical guide to consensus algorithms: Raft, Paxos and leader election, with real examples of when and why distributed systems need them.
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Event Sourcing in Practice: Patterns and Pitfalls
A practical guide to event sourcing — when to use it, how to implement event stores, build projections, handle schema evolution, and avoid common pitfalls.
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API Gateway Patterns for Microservices
How API gateways handle routing, authentication, rate limiting and response aggregation — and how to build or choose the right one.
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Understanding Concurrency Models: Threads, Async, and Actors
A comparison of threading, async/await, and actor-based concurrency models — when each fits, their tradeoffs, and how to avoid common pitfalls.
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Resilient Distributed Systems: Timeouts and Retries
How to implement timeouts, retries, and backoff strategies that prevent cascading failures in distributed architectures.
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Service Mesh Fundamentals: Infrastructure-Level Networking
A service mesh moves networking concerns like retries, circuit breaking, mTLS, and observability out of application code and into the infrastructure layer.
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The Circuit Breaker Pattern: Failing Gracefully
When a downstream service is failing, continuing to send requests makes everything worse — the circuit breaker pattern stops the cascade by failing fast.
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CQRS Pattern: Separating Reads from Writes
Command Query Responsibility Segregation uses separate models for reads and writes — when that solves a real problem, and when it is needless complexity.
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Domain-Driven Design: Essential Building Blocks
Entities, value objects, aggregates, and bounded contexts — the DDD patterns that keep complex business logic organized without over-engineering simple systems.
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