The CAP Theorem: A Simple Guide to a Hard Distributed Systems Problem
Hey readers, Imagine you’re building a massive application with users all over the world. To make it fast, you have two identical database servers: one in London and...
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Hey readers, I once spent six hours debugging an error in our new microservices architecture. A user would click “Purchase,” and a generic “Something went wrong” error would pop up....
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Hey readers, Imagine you’re building a massive application with users all over the world. To make it fast, you have two identical database servers: one in London and...
Hey readers, Imagine you’re building a new feature for a photo-sharing app. When a user uploads a new profile picture, the app needs to do several things: save...
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Hey readers, On one of my first major projects, we had to store user profiles. We chose a database we were familiar with and started building. Everything worked...
Hey readers, Every developer has lived this nightmare. You spend weeks building a new feature. It works perfectly on your laptop. You deploy it to the server, and…...
Hey readers, In our last post, we designed a beautiful, well-organized API that was as clean as a library. But there’s a problem: the front door is wide...
Hey readers, I once had to work with an API where the endpoint to get a user’s data was /getUserData, but the endpoint to update it was /update_user_info....