System Design Classroom

Dead Letter Queues Are Not Your Safety Net

You can learn System Design while waiting for your coffee.

Most Systems Get Consistency Wrong

Everything Started with the Promise of Loosely Coupled Systems

Every Outbox Needs an Inbox

What if this happens twice?

Why Just Publishing Events Isn’t Enough

A Good Diagram Is Worth More Than 1024 Words

The Architecture That Gets You Here Won’t Take You There

I used to think testing in production was a bad joke. I was wrong.

What Works in a Monolith Can Break a Microservice

Every Backend Engineer needs to know how to deal with payments.