Circuit Breakers and Graceful Degradation
Every distributed system fails. That is not a pessimistic statement; it is an operational one. In the payments platforms I have run, the question was never...
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Tagged #distributed systems
4 articles tagged #distributed systems.
The Outbox Pattern for Reliable Events
Every distributed system I have built in fintech eventually runs into the same uncomfortable question: how do you change your database and tell the rest of the...
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Designing Idempotent Event Consumers
Every distributed payments platform I have built eventually arrives at the same uncomfortable truth: messages get delivered more than once. Not occasionally,...
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Understanding Eventual Consistency
Every engineer who has built a payments platform eventually runs into the same uncomfortable truth: the moment your system spans more than one database, one...
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