Software Architecture
Articles about software architecture.
4 articlesMastering Race Conditions: Strategies for Reliable Software Systems
Understand race conditions in multithreaded and distributed systems, with locking strategies, detection methods, and a banking transaction example.
A Developer’s Guide to Circuit Breakers: Protect Your Service from Failure
How circuit breakers isolate downstream failures, with state transitions, configuration, monitoring, and a Go example using Hystrix.
Why You Should Use Caching - Improve User Experience and Reduce Costs
Backend object caching explained: write patterns, cache misses, invalidation, replacement policies, performance tradeoffs, and when caching is unsuitable.
Designing A Retry Mechanism For Reliable Systems
Design retries for transient failures: choose retryable requests, set backoff periods, manage retry state, and account for timeouts and idempotency.