Circuit Breakers
Circuit breakers are a vital component of any distributed system, helping to improve reliability and resilience by preventing failures from cascading and causing widespread damage.
Notes on Distributed Systems
Circuit breakers are a vital component of any distributed system, helping to improve reliability and resilience by preventing failures from cascading and causing widespread damage.
More features, active users, and data are collected daily. Your database is slowing your application. Many people don't understand database sharding, which could solve their difficulties. This article explains database sharding, its benefits, including how to use it and when not to.
As we scale systems, it's essential to realize the impact of all the components in our systems and how they interact. For example, load balancers usually come into play once we scale beyond one server being able to serve requests reliably.
The Twelve-Factor App methodology is a methodology for building software-as-a-service applications by Adam Wiggins. We cover how they have since evolved, and what we can learn from them today and how they changed the status quo of yesteryear.
As you venture into more complicated architecture setups, there are a few things engineers sometimes don't understand when setting up consensus-based systems. Understanding quorums and fault tolerance are critical in understanding such systems.
There are many discussions about which level of system granulation is the best. We went from monoliths to microservices and back again.