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Adam - The Developer3d ago • 3 min read
Minimal Code Doesn’t Mean Stable Code
The argument sounds reasonable: fewer lines of code mean fewer bugs. Simpler to review, easier to...
#programming#productivity#backend#distributedsystems
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amir1d ago • 8 min read
Why We Accidentally Blocked Our Users: A Deep Dive into Idempotency in Distributed Systems
A production story about payment retries, duplicate requests, Redis, distributed locks, and how idem...
#backend#distributedsystems#redis#architecture
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Krishan2d ago • 6 min read
Retrying HTTP Requests in Go Without Making It Worse
When you call an external API, things go fine until they don't. A network blip, a server restart, a....
#go#http#distributedsystems#webdev
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Huynh Thanh Phuc1d ago • 6 min read
Feature flag rollouts in Go without a vendor
Product wants to ship a new checkout flow. Engineering wants a way to roll it out gradually - 1%...
#go#distributedsystems
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Joud Awad5d ago • 1 min read
19/30 Days System Design Questions!
Your checkout endpoint has a 400ms P95. Profiling shows 70% of that is DB reads. You add a read...
#architecture#database#distributedsystems#systemdesign
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Joud Awad6d ago • 2 min read
18/30 Days System Design Questions!
Your Redis cache just expired on a key that 8,000 users hit every second. Every single one of those....
#systemdesign#distributedsystems#designsystem
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Joud Awad1d ago • 1 min read
22/30 Days System Design Questions
Your payment service just charged a customer. It writes to the DB. Now it needs to tell the...
#systemdesign#distributedsystems#architecture#softwareengineering
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Mehmet TURAÇ1d ago • 8 min read
Architecture of Chaos: Taming a Planet-Scale Financial Beast (Part 1 — Lying Clocks & Vector Clocks)
"Selim, you have six months. In six months, the system either goes planet-scale, or we go bankrupt.....
#systemdesign#distributedsystems#architecture#backend
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Venkatesan Ramar23h ago • 8 min read
Why Distributed Transactions Fail and How the Outbox Pattern Helps
While covering the Outbox Pattern in my earlier article on CQRS, I realized there was much more...
#distributedsystems#architecture#eventdriven#microservices
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Jayanth5d ago • 2 min read
Distributed tracing across FastAPI and Celery with OpenTelemetry the part nobody shows you
Every OpenTelemetry tutorial ends at "add the middleware to FastAPI." That gets you traces for HTTP....
#python#observability#distributedsystems#backend
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Ebendttl2d ago • 4 min read
Deep Dive into Y.js CRDTs for Real-Time Multiplayer Editors
Building sub-50ms collaborative environments using Monaco Editor, WebSockets, and Redis pub/sub back...
#javascript#webdev#typescript#distributedsystems
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Jayanth5d ago • 2 min read
Multi-tenant PostgreSQL: row-level security vs schema-per-tenant & when to use which
If you're building a multi-tenant SaaS, this is the first real architecture decision that will haun...
#postgres#backend#sass#distributedsystems
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Sabir4d ago • 6 min read
Building TaskForge: Translating Enterprise Chaos into an Open-Source Scheduler
If you build enterprise software, you know the pain: you spend months solving complex architectural....
#distributedsystems#programming#architecture#ai
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Ishaan Mavinkurve1d ago • 6 min read
Dhrishti Part 1 - Building Runtime Observability for Distributed Systems
— written by a human! Recently at work, I worked on a major project - Multitenancy. Initially, we....
#programming#linux#go#distributedsystems
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Anusha Mukka3d ago • 5 min read
The Illusion of Scale, Part 3: Access Control Doesn't Scale Linearly
One day you look up and realize your permissions model is something only two people on the team can....
#security#distributedsystems#architecture#backend
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Mehmet TURAÇ1d ago • 6 min read
Architecture of Chaos Part 2 — CAP Is Dead, Long Live PACELC (and CRDTs That Actually Work)
This is Part 2 of the Architecture of Chaos series. Start from Part 1 here. ⚠️ Names, companies,.....
#systemdesign#distributedsystems#architecture#database
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Jayanth5d ago • 3 min read
How I built an idempotent async task queue with Celery, Redis, and FastAPI
Most tutorials show you how to send a task to Celery. None of them show you what happens when that.....
#ai#distributedsystems#aws#backend
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Yoganand Govind1d ago • 3 min read
What I've Been Building for the Last Several Months and Why I'm Finally Writing About It
I've been quietly heads-down building something outside of work for the past several months. No...
#aws#serverless#ai#distributedsystems
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Nidhish Akolkar4d ago • 7 min read
State Drift in Parallel Execution Systems - What It Is and How to Fix It By Nidhish Akolkar
There is a category of bug that is worse than a crash. A crash is loud. It stops execution. It...
#ai#programming#architecture#distributedsystems
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Mehmet TURAÇ3d ago • 2 min read
Back to Code | Ep 06: State Hell and Idempotency
The 15-week technical battle of LogiFlow — a company waking up from the illusion created by...
#programming#ai#distributedsystems#typescript
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Hugo Vantighem5d ago • 3 min read
Read Modify Write Is Where NoSQL Concurrency Bugs Begin.
Part 1 of 3 — the single-document case. There's a class of bug that every backend engineer ships at...
#architecture#distributedsystems#mongodb#nosql
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Alex @ Vibe Agent Making3d ago • 3 min read
What Giraffes Teach About Distributed Systems
Originally published at vibeagentmaking.com What the Brain Sees The giraffe's...
#distributedsystems#architecture#biology#engineering
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Mehmet TURAÇ1d ago • 6 min read
Architecture of Chaos Part 4 (Finale) — Split-Brain Surgery, Chaos Engineering, and Shipping to Production
Cell-Based Architecture for GDPR, Hybrid Logical Clocks (the poor man's TrueTime), fencing zombie le...
#systemdesign#distributedsystems#devops#architecture
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Venkatesan Ramar3d ago • 11 min read
CQRS: Where It Helps and Where It Hurts in Backend Systems
CQRS has been one of the most talked-about architectural patterns in modern backend systems. Over th...
#distributedsystems#architecture#systemdesign#eventdriven
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