A deep dive into backpressure and flow control patterns in distributed systems, covering real failure modes, production implementations with Kafka and reactive streams, and the architectural decisions that keep pipelines alive under load.
A hands-on guide to deploying Envoy Proxy as a production API gateway, covering circuit breakers, retries, rate limiting, and health checking patterns that keep your microservices alive under pressure.
Hedged requests combat tail latency by issuing duplicate RPC calls when initial requests stall. This post explores the architecture, trade-offs, and production patterns behind this critical technique for resilient low-latency systems.
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 practitioner’s guide to designing circuit breakers in service meshes, with concrete patterns for failure detection, isolation, and recovery in production microservices.