Graceful degradation is all about keeping your system functional, even if it's not at 100%. We'll explore strategies like circuit breakers, rate limiting, and prioritization to help your backend weather any storm....

Tries: Not Just for Word Games Anymore Let's start with tries (pronounced "trees", because why make things easy?). These tree-like structures are the unsung heroes of prefix matching and autocomplete features. What&...

CRI acts as a bridge between Kubernetes and the container runtime, defining a standard set of gRPC calls that Kubernetes uses to interact with containers. This abstraction layer is what makes it possible for us to...

Pagination isn't just about slapping a "Next" button on your UI. We'll explore the treacherous terrain of infinite scrolling, the abyss of deep pagination, and the SEO labyrinth for paginated...

Why a Rules Engine? Before we start slinging code, let's talk about why you'd want a rules engine in the first place: * Separates business logic from core application code * Allows non-technical folks...

The Actor Model, implemented through systems like Akka, can significantly boost your microservices' concurrency handling. It excels in scenarios with high message throughput, complex state management, and where traditional thread-pool designs fall short. We'...

Let's quickly recap why traditional CRUD-based REST APIs fall short when dealing with complex workflows: * Lack of state representation * Difficulty in handling long-running processes * No built-in support for rollbacks or compensating transactions * Limited ability...

Multi-tenancy is a crucial architectural decision that can make or break your application's scalability and cost-effectiveness. But here's the kicker: implementing multi-tenancy in a microservices is challenging, it's dangerous, and...

In this article, we'll explore the fascinating challenge of creating a Sim card app for the legendary Nokia 3310. Why, you ask? Because sometimes, the best way to appreciate how far we've...

Zig is a general-purpose programming language designed to be simple, yet powerful. It aims to provide the performance of C with the safety of Rust, but without the cognitive overhead that comes with Rust's...

zk-SNARK stands for "Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge". Yeah, that's a mouthful. Let's break it down: * Zero-Knowledge: You prove you know something without revealing what that something is. * Succinct:...

The event loop is the heart of Node.js, pumping asynchronous operations through your application like blood through veins. It's single-threaded, which means it can handle one operation at a time. But don'...

JVM, Go, and Rust each have unique approaches to handling data races: * JVM uses a happens-before relationship and volatile variables * Go embraces a simple "don't communicate by sharing memory; share memory by communicating&...

TL;DR We'll implement a resilient Saga pattern using gRPC to manage distributed transactions across microservices. We'll cover the basics, show you how to set it up, and even throw in some...

The Dependency Dilemma: Why It's a Big Deal Let's face it: managing dependencies in a monolith is child's play compared to wrangling them in a microservices architecture. Here's...