Serverless Architecture: Boundaries, State, and Cold Starts
Understand serverless responsibility boundaries, event-driven design, cold starts, state, and observability before moving workloads to managed functions.
Posts tagged with #distributed-systems
Service-Oriented Architecture: Boundaries and Trade-Offs
Learn how service-oriented architecture organizes capabilities behind contracts, when it fits, and how to avoid coupling and fragile integrations.
Event-Driven Architecture Roadmap: From Events to Production
Follow a practical path through event-driven design, brokers, contracts, reliable delivery, workflows, stream processing, and production operations.
Event Envelopes and Metadata for Reliable EDA
Learn how event envelopes separate transport context from payload, apply CloudEvents attributes, propagate correlation IDs, and validate messages safely.
API Clients, Servers, and Network Boundaries Explained
Understand what API clients and servers each own, how network boundaries fail, and how timeouts, retries, and trust boundaries shape reliable integrations.
Idempotency, Deduplication, and Safe Replays
Design idempotent API operations and deduplication records so clients can retry after timeouts without creating duplicate payments, jobs, or updates.
Partial Failure, Ordering, and Eventual Consistency
Understand partial API failures, message ordering, and eventual consistency, then design status models and recovery paths clients can reason about.
Choosing RPC, gRPC, or Event APIs for Service Integration
Compare REST-style RPC, gRPC, and event APIs by interaction pattern, latency, coupling, tooling, and operational needs before choosing an integration style.
Distributed Operating Systems
Explore distributed file systems, RPC mechanisms, cluster scheduling, and the fundamental concepts behind modern distributed operating systems.
Backpressure Handling: Protecting Pipelines from Overload
Learn how to implement backpressure in data pipelines to prevent cascading failures, handle overload gracefully, and maintain system stability.