Tagged Distributed Systems

3 articles on Distributed Systems.

// Architecture3 Resilience Patterns That Keep a Backend Service Up When Its Dependencies Aren'tpetarivanov.tech
June 27, 2026•9 min read
3 Resilience Patterns That Keep a Backend Service Up When Its Dependencies Aren't
Timeout, retry with backoff, and circuit breaker — what each one actually does, and the order to stack them.
// ArchitectureHow to Stop Charging Customers Twice: A Practical Idempotency Guidepetarivanov.tech
June 9, 2026•9 min read
How to Stop Charging Customers Twice: A Practical Idempotency Guide
Idempotency in plain English: HTTP, message queues, and the one detail that decides whether it's real.
// ArchitectureHow Did SoundCloud Scale Its Architecture Using BFF, Microservices & DDD?petarivanov.tech
February 16, 2025•4 min read
How Did SoundCloud Scale Its Architecture Using BFF, Microservices & DDD?
A deep dive into the SoundCloud's journey from monolith to BFF, Microservices, and DDD. (5 minutes)