
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.
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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.

A practical comparison of gRPC and REST for backend services — covering performance characteristics, developer experience, streaming capabilities, and the tradeoffs that determine which protocol fits your use case.

How API gateways handle routing, authentication, rate limiting, and response aggregation — with patterns for building or choosing the right gateway for your architecture.

A service mesh moves networking concerns like retries, circuit breaking, mTLS, and observability out of application code and into the infrastructure layer.

When a request touches five services, logs from each one are useless in isolation — distributed tracing ties them together with trace IDs, spans, and context propagation.