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Message Queues, Idempotency, and Circuit Breakers: Designing the Write Path for Failure

June 3, 2026Architecture Patterns

Reliable systems assume requests will be retried, duplicated, delayed, or partially failed. Message queues, idempotency keys, and circuit breakers are how you design the write path so those failures do not turn into corrupted product behavior.

API Gateways, Service Discovery, and Service Mesh: The Traffic Control Layer of Modern Systems

June 1, 2026Architecture Patterns

Once a system stops being a single process, traffic control becomes an architecture problem. API gateways, service registries, and service meshes solve related but different coordination problems, and mixing them up leads to bad designs.

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