Backend Dev
Postgres vs CockroachDB: Global Event Store Guide (2026)
A 10k‑event‑per‑second write storm crashed Postgres. Switching to CockroachDB cut tail latency by 40 %—Postgres vs CockroachDB proves winner…
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Microservices
12 articles
Backend Dev
gRPC Stream Timeouts: 5 Debugging Tips (2026)
An alarm at 2 am revealed a silent gRPC stream timeout that froze dashboards. Trace deadline propagation, close leaked…
Backend Dev
Kafka OpenTelemetry Tracing: Build Event‑Driven Mesh (2026)
A corrupted Avro payload stalled our order pipeline as trace context never crossed Kafka. Kafka OpenTelemetry tracing gives…
Backend Dev
Hexagonal Architecture in Go: 5 Practical Tips (2026)
Your Go service hangs on DB connections because logic is tied to sql.DB. Hexagonal architecture in Go isolates…
System Desgin
Monolith vs Microservices: 5 Tradeoffs for Startups (2026)
A 2‑am outage traced to three HTTP calls shows why early teams need speed. Monolith vs Microservices shows…
Backend Dev
Backend from First Principles: 5 Critical Lessons (2026)
A stray circuit‑breaker turned DB‑hammer, exposing retry storms that kill latency. Backend from first principles shows how to…
Backend Dev
Redis Caching Patterns: 5 Ways to Slash Latency (2026)
Your microservice hit 120 ms 99th‑percentile after a cache stampede. Redis caching patterns stop stampedes, cut latency to sub‑2 ms…
System Desgin
Rate Limiter Design: 5 Patterns That Scale (2026)
A 4k RPS 429 surge exposed a broken in‑memory limiter; I rebuilt a rate limiter with Token Bucket and…
Node Js
Prisma Transactions in Node.js: 5 Tips (Production Guide)
Midnight deploys can deadlock your orders table. Using Prisma transactions guarantees ACID safety, eliminates partial writes, and slashes…
Node Js
Distributed Transactions in Node.js: Saga Pattern (2026)
Master distributed transactions in Node.js with the Saga pattern: step‑by‑step choreography or orchestration, idempotent design, and proven rollback…
System Desgin
Designing a Scalable Redis JWT Session Store (2026 Guide)
Learn how to build a Redis‑backed JWT session store that offers instant token revocation, auditability, and million‑scale sessions…
Backend Dev
From PR to Production: How Kubernetes Deployments Actually Work (Single Service + Microservices in the Real World)
Most developers know how to write code. Fewer understand what actually happens after they click “Merge Pull Request.”…