Frontend
Micro Frontends Architecture Guide
A practical guide to micro frontends: splitting a monolithic frontend into independently deployable pieces with Module Federation and shared design systems.
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Architecture
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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Backend
Database Sharding Strategies and Trade-Offs
A practical guide to database sharding: partitioning strategies, shard key selection, cross-shard queries and the operational cost of distributing data.
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Architecture
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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Architecture
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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Architecture
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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Architecture
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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Architecture
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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Architecture
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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Architecture
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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Event-Driven Architecture: Patterns and Pitfalls
Event-driven systems decouple producers from consumers through async messaging — but eventual consistency, ordering and idempotency add real complexity.
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Architecture
Message Queues in Practice
RabbitMQ, Redis Streams, or Kafka — understanding the messaging patterns behind decoupled, resilient systems and when each tool fits.
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