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Circuit Breakers
Circuit breakers are a vital component of any distributed system, helping to improve reliability and resilience by preventing failures from cascading…
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Database Sharding Explained
More features, active users, and data are collected daily. Your database is slowing your application. Many people don't understand database sharding…
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Virtualization Explained
The development of cloud-native applications has become significantly influenced by container technology. Building secure and reliable systems requires…
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Load Balancers
As we scale systems, it's essential to realize the impact of all the components in our systems and how they interact. For example, load balancers…
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12 Factor App Revisited
The Twelve-Factor App methodology is a methodology for building software-as-a-service applications by Adam Wiggins. We cover how they have since…
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Quorums
As you venture into more complicated architecture setups, there are a few things engineers sometimes don't understand when setting up consensus-based…
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