Idempotency in Distributed Systems — Why Your Retry Just Charged the Customer Twice
Here is a bug that has cost real companies real money: a customer taps “Pay ₹50…
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Distributed Systems in Practice — Failures, Time, Consensus and Correctness
Every backend engineer today builds distributed systems, whether they call it…
Why Distributed Systems Fail Differently
A few years back, during a big sale, a friend’s team at an e-commerce company…
Reliability and Human-in-the-Loop for AI Agents
At 4:10 PM on a Thursday, our cloud provider did a routine node rotation in the…
Scaling Pitfalls: Hotspots, Stampedes and Failure
A design that looks correct on the whiteboard can still collapse the first time…
System Design Patterns for Managing Long-Running Tasks
Introduction Some operations simply can’t finish in the time a user is willing…