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The Transactional Outbox Pattern in Go: What the Compiler Enforces and What Rust Leaves to You

21h ago · 19 min read · The failure scenario At 09:14:33, a customer places a £29.99 order on your platform. The order is saved to the database. The process crashes before publishing order.created to RabbitMQ. The fulfilment

Building an Idempotent Ledger in Go

22h ago · 18 min read · The failure scenario At 14:03:42, Alice's app sends a £100 transfer to Bob. The server processes it, Alice's balance drops, Bob's rises. Then the network drops. The response never arrives. Alice's app

Building a Token Bucket Rate Limiter in Go with Chi and sync primitives

1d ago · 9 min read · Rate limiting is a problem every HTTP service eventually faces. In this post I will walk through building an in-memory token bucket rate limiter in Go, using chi for routing and nothing but the standa

Building a Token Bucket Rate Limiter in Rust with Axum

1d ago · 10 min read · Rate limiting is one of those problems that looks simple on the surface, until you think carefully about what happens when hundreds of requests arrive for the same client at exactly the same moment. I

The Transactional Outbox Pattern in Rust: Guaranteed Message Delivery Without Distributed Transactions

4d ago · 21 min read · The failure scenario At 09:14:33, a customer places a £29.99 order on your platform. The order is saved to the database. The process crashes before publishing order.created to RabbitMQ. The fulfilment