Kafka Consumer Container Restarts in Kubernetes: A Production Case Study
A prod debugging story you’ll probably relate to
Feb 10, 20267 min read73
Command Palette
Search for a command to run...
Series
Distributed Systems
Bits and Pieces I learned on how to build and scale a distributed system. All the posts in the series belong to the real problems I faced during my 9-5 and the solutions we went through with.
How we solved cache invalidation in Kubernetes with a headless service
The $0 solution to a Distributed Cache Invalidation
Dec 29, 20254 min read113
Finding a Needle in Haystack: Fixing Mysterious Bad Gateway
Introduction At my current org, we have many applications running behind the API gateway that interacts with the outside world using REST APIs. To track server-side failures we built an alert system that nudges every time we get any 5XX error. As soo...
Mar 11, 20236 min read727
Building Resilient Systems: Retry Pattern in Microservices
Introduction Any application that communicates with other resources over a network has to be resilient to transient failures. These failures are sometimes self-correcting. For example, a service that is processing thousands of concurrent requests can...
Mar 6, 20236 min read724
How to Choose The Right Database for Your Application
Important points to consider, Relational vs Non-relational Database, CAP theorem, and more!
May 15, 20228 min read1.5K
Message Queues and Asynchronous Processing
Low Altitude Flight Over the Messaging Queue Landscape
Dec 31, 20217 min read835