1d ago · 7 min read · Most engineering blogs that talk about Kafka either quote the Netflix case study or walk you through the "hello world" producer-consumer example. Both are useless if you're actually trying to decide w
Join discussion4d ago · 6 min read · Note (2026): CloudKarafka has discontinued their hosted Kafka service — a more up-to-date tutorial on Kafka alternatives is coming soon! Using a message queuing cluster like Apache Kafka is an excell
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6d ago · 22 min read · 📖 The 500K-Event Problem: When a Naive Kafka Consumer Falls Apart An analytics platform at a mid-sized fintech company needs to process 500,000 payment events per second from a Kafka cluster. The team starts with a straightforward approach: a hand-r...
Join discussionApr 18 · 7 min read · The Redpanda container was configured for 256MB of RAM. On a local dev machine with 32GB, that's nothing. On the production VPS with 1GB total, it was a quarter of the entire budget before the notification service had processed a single event. I had ...
Join discussionApr 17 · 46 min read · In the summer of 2023, the platform team at a fast-growing e-commerce company was handling 100,000 orders per day across three microservices: Order Service, Inventory Service, and Billing Service. All three needed to react to the same database mutati...
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Apr 17 · 15 min read · What Most Chat System Design Articles Get Wrong Search "design a chat system" and you'll find hundreds of articles. Most of them give you a box labeled "Chat Server" with some arrows pointing at a dat
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Apr 8 · 16 min read · { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "FAQPage", "mainEntity": [ { "@type": "Question", "name": "What is event-driven architecture in 2026?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Event-dri...
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Apr 6 · 7 min read · Modern applications need to handle massive traffic, scale efficiently, and remain reliable under load. One of the most powerful tools used to achieve this is a queue. In this blog, we’ll break down qu
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Apr 5 · 22 min read · TLDR: Any service that writes to a database and publishes a message in the same logical operation has a dual write problem. try/catch retries don't fix it — they turn failures into duplicates. The Transactional Outbox pattern co-writes business data ...
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