Architecture
Evolving Event Schemas Without Breaking Consumers
How to add fields, rename properties, and restructure events in async systems without coordinating deployments or silently breaking downstream consumers.
·4 min read
Tags
event-driven
8 articles
Architecture
The Transactional Outbox Pattern: Solving Dual-Write in Distributed Systems
How the transactional outbox pattern eliminates the dual-write problem and guarantees reliable event publishing without coupling your database to your message broker.
·5 min read
Architecture
Microservices Architecture Patterns That Actually Work
Practical lessons from designing and operating microservices at scale — event-driven communication, service boundaries, and the patterns that survived production.
·3 min read
Backend
Real-Time Data Pipelines with Apache Kafka and TypeScript
Build real-time data pipelines using Apache Kafka with TypeScript consumers and producers, covering partitioning strategies, consumer groups, exactly-once semantics, and dead letter queues for reliable event streaming.
·3 min read
Architecture
Event Mesh Architecture for Multi-Cloud Systems
Design event mesh architectures that route events across multiple clouds and regions with dynamic topic routing, protocol bridging, schema governance, and eventually consistent delivery guarantees.
·5 min read
Backend
Implementing Database Change Data Capture Pipelines
Build CDC pipelines that stream database changes to downstream systems in real time, covering log-based capture with Debezium, event formatting, schema evolution handling, and exactly-once delivery guarantees.
·5 min read
Tutorials
Building an Event-Driven Microservice with Node.js
A step-by-step tutorial for building an event-driven microservice using Node.js, RabbitMQ, and TypeScript — covering event publishing, consumption, dead letter queues, and idempotent processing.
·5 min read
Architecture
Event-Driven Architecture: Patterns and Pitfalls
Event-driven systems decouple producers from consumers through asynchronous message passing — but eventual consistency, ordering guarantees, and idempotency introduce real complexity.
·3 min read