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Jul 10, 2023 · 10 min read · Distributed systems are often structured as request-driven stateless microservices. However, that approach has its limits and, at scale, invites complexity and tends to sacrifice both correctness and latency unwittingly. In a stateless design, all se...
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Mar 25, 2023 · 6 min read · Reliable distributed systems are notoriously difficult to architect. Even somewhat standardized designs, such as stateless microservices, require navigating numerous pitfalls when converting theory into practice. As discussed in a previous article, T...
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Jan 24, 2023 · 6 min read · In today's public cloud age, few distributed services use local disks directly. Instead, they delegate their data durability needs to some infrastructure that ultimately does, usually a distributed SQL database or message broker. Practically all clou...
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Jan 7, 2023 · 7 min read · Every programmer knows not to use monolithic architectures, and microservices have become the default choice for distributed systems. Smaller is better, to a limit: a config microservice; a microservice to abstract database access; a microservice for...
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