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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Microservices
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Tutorials
Building an Event-Driven Microservice with Node.js
A step-by-step tutorial for an event-driven microservice with Node.js, RabbitMQ and TypeScript: publishing, consumption, DLQs and idempotent processing.
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Backend
gRPC vs REST: When to Use What
A practical comparison of gRPC and REST for backend services: performance, developer experience, streaming, and the tradeoffs that decide between them.
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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
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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Engineering
Distributed Tracing: Following Requests Across Services
When a request touches five services, each log is useless alone — distributed tracing ties them together with trace IDs, spans and context propagation.
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