A practitioner’s guide to building sagas for distributed commerce transactions, comparing orchestration and choreography, and showing how compensation, idempotency, and observability keep orders resilient when individual services fail.
A practical tour of nine distributed systems patterns that show up in real production stacks, from leader election to the Saga pattern, with concrete examples from Kafka, Postgres, and large web services.
How to design load shedding that adapts in real time, sets thresholds based on signal quality, and fails over gracefully when the system is already on fire.
A practical, runnable build guide for an HTTP load balancer with health checks and least-connections routing. Architecture, code, and a roadmap to senior-level extensions.
Compaction strategy is the single most consequential knob in a RocksDB deployment. This post walks through how tiered (universal) and leveled compaction actually work, what they cost at write and read time, and how to pick one based on your workload shape.