Architecture
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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Distributed Systems
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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
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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Backend
Rate Limiting Algorithms: Token Bucket and Beyond
A deep dive into rate limiting algorithms with implementations, trade-offs, and guidance on choosing the right approach for your API.
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Backend
Idempotency in API Design: Safe Retries at Scale
Network failures mean requests get retried — idempotent API design makes processing the same request twice produce one result, not duplicate charges.
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Architecture
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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Architecture
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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