A complete build guide for a User Safety side project that demonstrates event-driven architecture, real-time policy enforcement, and observability — skills hiring managers actively look for in senior backend and platform engineering roles.
How to design a reliable CDC pipeline from PostgreSQL to downstream systems using Debezium — covering WAL internals, connector configuration, schema evolution, and the failure modes you’ll hit in production.
Discover how Apache Pulsar Functions enable developers to process streaming data and build event-driven microservices at scale without the overhead of external frameworks.
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.
Distributed transactions in commerce platforms can’t rely on two-phase commit. This post walks through the Saga pattern, compares choreography and orchestration, and shows how to handle compensation, idempotency, and observability in production.