4 min read Choosing between gRPC and REST is a fundamental API design decision with significant implications for performance, developer experience, and interoperability. […] Read article
3 min read Lambda and Kappa architectures are data processing patterns for building systems that must handle both real-time (streaming) and historical (batch) Read article
3 min read Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC) is a database concurrency mechanism that allows readers and writers to operate simultaneously without blocking each Read article
5 min read Zero-downtime deployments allow updating a running service without any period of unavailability to users. As services move to continuous delivery Read article
3 min read Idempotency means that performing an operation multiple times produces the same result as performing it once. In distributed systems, network Read article
5 min read Multi-tenancy is an architecture where a single software instance serves multiple customers (tenants) with logical isolation between them. It is Read article
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5 min read A service mesh is an infrastructure layer that handles service-to-service communication in a microservices architecture, providing observability, traffic management, and Read article
3 min read A skip list is a probabilistic data structure that allows O(log n) search, insertion, and deletion on an ordered sequence, Read article
5 min read Consistent hashing solves the data redistribution problem in distributed systems. With naive modulo hashing (key % N), adding or removing Read article
4 min read A publish-subscribe (pub/sub) messaging system decouples producers (publishers) from consumers (subscribers) through a message broker. Publishers emit events to topics Read article
3 min read An API rate limiter controls how many requests a client can make within a time window, protecting backend services from Read article
3 min read A Bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure that tests whether an element is a member of a set. Read article
3 min read A distributed task queue decouples work producers from workers, enabling async processing, retries, scheduling, and horizontal scaling. Common use cases: Read article
