How we solved cache invalidation in Kubernetes with a headless service
The $0 solution to a Distributed Cache Invalidation
Dec 29, 20254 min read113
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Going Vernacular: Engineering Our Way to Process Multilingual Names
Introduction At our current organization, earlier this year as we were looking at the errors at one of our signup API, we observed that nearly 5% of our requests were getting failed, all due to 400 BAD REQUEST errors, and the root cause was traced ba...
Dec 4, 202310 min read527
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
Message Queues and Asynchronous Processing
Low Altitude Flight Over the Messaging Queue Landscape
Dec 31, 20217 min read835
NanoID - A URL Friendly Unique Identifier
What is Nano Id and how is it different from UUID?
Jul 26, 20214 min read9.3K