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A Good System Design Tackles Down the Hot Path First
Before you add cache, replicas, queues, or microservices, understand where the system actually feels pressure.
Jun 13
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Most System Design Mistakes Hide Between the Boxes
Five gaps your architecture diagrams don't show
May 30
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Raul Junco
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Bad Retries Can Break Good Systems
A practical guide to using backoff, jitter, retry budgets, idempotency, and circuit breakers in backend systems.
May 9
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Raul Junco
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Event-Driven Systems Are Easy to Build but Hard to Keep Correct
4 ways event-driven systems fail without looking broken
Apr 25
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Raul Junco
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Consistency is negotiable. But the bill always lands somewhere.
Linearizable, causal, eventual, and quorum: how to pick the right consistency guarantee for each workflow in your system.
Apr 18
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Raul Junco
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Good System Design Starts With Constraints, Not Diagrams, Not Tools
Most Engineers Learn System Design Backwards
Apr 4
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Async systems scale your system… and your problems.
Many developers only realize it after consistency breaks.
Mar 28
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Raul Junco
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Refactoring Databases Is a Different Animal
A practical pattern for evolving database schemas without breaking production
Mar 14
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Raul Junco
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