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The Inbox & Outbox Pattern: Reliable Events with Kafka 📬
How to stop losing (and duplicating) events when your service writes to a database and Kafka at the same time.
Message BrokerReliabilityArchitecture
Engineering
Reliability, workers, and the day-to-day craft of shipping backends.
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Dependency Injection in Go with Uber Fx
When hand-wiring main.go stops scaling, and what Fx's graph resolution and lifecycle ordering buy you in return.
GolangArchitecture
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API Reliability Patterns for Serverless Backends
Practical patterns for retries, idempotency, and observability in Lambda-backed product APIs.
ServerlessReliabilityAPI Design
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Demystifying Apache Kafka: Why It's Not Just Another Message Queue 🚀
What makes Kafka a distributed log rather than a queue, and when to reach for RabbitMQ or Redis instead.
Message BrokerReliabilityArchitecture
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Designing Idempotent Workers for Data Pipelines
Practical patterns for safer ingestion, retries, and medallion-style processing on AWS.
Data EngineeringWorkersReliability
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Designing Observable Data Pipelines
A practical checklist for making ingestion, transformation, and reporting pipelines easier to operate.
Data EngineeringObservabilityPipelines