The Circuit Breaker Pattern: Fail Fast, So One Dead Service Doesn't Kill Them All
Like the electrical switch in your home that it is named after, a circuit…
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Distributed Systems in Practice — Failures, Time, Consensus and Correctness
Every backend engineer today builds distributed systems, whether they call it…
Transactions Across Services: 2PC, Sagas and the Outbox
Here’s a bug I helped track down in an e-commerce backend. Customers would…
Design an E-Commerce Platform
E-commerce platforms handle some of the most demanding distributed systems…
System Design Masterclass
System design is the skill that separates senior engineers from everyone else…
Deep Dive on API Gateway: A System Design Interview Perspective
“An API Gateway is the front door to your microservices. Every request walks…
REST API Design: Pagination, Versioning, and Best Practices
Every time two systems need to talk, someone has to design the contract between…
System Design Patterns for Managing Long-Running Tasks
Introduction Some operations simply can’t finish in the time a user is willing…
Explaining SAGA Patterns with Examples
In a monolith, placing an order is a single database transaction — deduct…