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Time and Ordering in Distributed Systems
Choose physical, logical, vector, and hybrid clocks by the ordering facts a distributed protocol actually needs.
2026-07-14 · 14 min read
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Distributed Locks, Leases, and Fencing Tokens
Make lease-based coordination safe by fencing stale owners at every protected resource with monotonic tokens.
2026-06-29 · 14 min read
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CRDTs for Conflict-Free Replication
Derive convergent replicated data from merge laws, causal context, and explicit product semantics.
2026-06-17 · 14 min read
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Message Queues, Streams, and Durable Logs
Choose queues, streams, and durable logs by their ownership, retention, replay, ordering, and consumer-state contracts.
2026-06-05 · 12 min read
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Service Discovery and Health Checking
Design service discovery as a converging membership system with explicit readiness, liveness, staleness, and observability contracts.
2026-05-24 · 14 min read
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Idempotency Keys and Exactly-Once Delivery
Safe retries with idempotency records, payload hashes, transactions, inbox/outbox patterns, and honest delivery guarantees.
2026-05-16 · 13 min read
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Load Balancing from Round Robin to Consistent Hashing
Choose request-placement algorithms by workload cost, locality, health evidence, churn, and hotspot behavior rather than by name alone.
2026-05-12 · 15 min read
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Resilience Patterns: Timeouts, Circuit Breakers, and Bulkheads
Compose time budgets, circuit breakers, bulkheads, retry budgets, and degradation to contain service-level failures.
2026-04-30 · 13 min read
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Gossip Protocols and Failure Detectors
Build scalable membership from epidemic dissemination, suspicion evidence, phi accrual, incarnation handling, and convergence tests.
2026-04-18 · 14 min read
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Two-Phase Commit and Atomic Commitment
Two-phase commit turns durable participant votes into one atomic outcome, at the cost of blocking, coordination, and careful recovery.
2026-04-06 · 14 min read
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The Saga Pattern for Distributed Transactions
Sagas coordinate local transactions with durable state, idempotent retries, and compensations when one global transaction is impossible.
2026-01-13 · 14 min read
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Designing a Distributed Rate Limiter
A practical design for atomic token buckets, resilient enforcement, multi-region tradeoffs, observability, and abuse resistance.
2025-08-16 · 12 min read