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Work Queues: The Simplest Form of Batch Processing
An Easy and Scalable Solution for Managing Tasks
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Raul Junco
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Failing Silently is also an Option.
You can do better than showing Error Messages. Learn when and how.
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Raul Junco
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September 2024

Even Data Can't Escape Physics: It Has Temperature, and It Has Gravity!
And these hidden forces impact your costs.
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Raul Junco
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Did they tell you how to split the Database?
There are many posts about splitting your monolithic source code, but none of them explain how to split your Database. This is my humble intent.
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Raul Junco
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System design isn't a Cut & Paste job.
Templates and checklists are helpful tools, but they only work if you dive deep to understand the problem. Here’s how:
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Raul Junco
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In the real world, you might need more than a simple Work Queue.
As systems become more complicated, you need to link work queues together. And these 5 Patterns of Event-Driven Processing give you a blueprint.
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August 2024

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is exciting until you deal with event versioning.
There is one way: Send meeting invites to all teams. After 101 meetings, post your maintenance banner, and everyone hits the release button at the same…
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Raul Junco
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Distributed Services can't exist without Eventual Consistency.
Network communication is far from perfect. And distributed systems inevitably face eventual consistency due to network delays and communication…
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July 2024

A good System Design is not about getting more instances running.
The Cloud changed how we use infrastructure, making it more accessible and available. But, it is also easier to spin instances to solve performance…
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"Don't talk to strangers" also applies to software development.
You hear from best programmers about having "loosely coupled" classes. But what does this mean?
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Resiliency beyond the Classic Circuit Breaker
In 2011, Netflix was in trouble. They have dozens of internal services; if one fails, the error will break the UI.
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Raul Junco
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Queues offer more than orderly processing
They are the backbone of modern system architecture, boosting functionality, resiliency and efficiency across the board.
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