Ordered Retries in Kafka: Why The Retry Topic Is Breaking Downstream
4d ago · 8 min read · I was on-call when the P1 hit. Slack lighting up, a downstream team's database rejecting writes. Constraint violations everywhere. I pulled up the logs. The events looked fine. The schema was correct.
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From cache misses to traffic storm: Understanding the Thundering Herd Effect
Mar 7 · 5 min read · So, what exactly is Thundering Herd Effect The Thundering Herd is performance related issue in distributed / large scale systems where a huge number of client or threads tries to access same set of re
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Reliability in Distributed Systems: Designing Systems That Continue to Work When Things Go Wrong
Mar 6 · 4 min read · Introduction Reliability is one of the foundational principles of modern system design. For users, reliability simply means that the system works as expected.However, in distributed systems reliabilit
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