Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• Saga Pattern: When Theory Meets Reality

  Published: 2 Sep, 2025 |  at  09:02 AM

  Real-world lessons from implementing Saga Pattern: partial failure, imperfect compensation, duplicate events, and the trade-off between Orchestration and Choreography.

• Be Careful with Retry – Don't DDoS Your Own System

  Published: 22 Jun, 2025 |  at  04:02 PM

  Uncontrolled retries can cause cascading failures. A guide to proper retry with exponential backoff, jitter, circuit breaker, and deferred retry.

• Hundreds of Orders Vanished in Just 3 Minutes – All Because of One Forgotten Config Line

  Published: 18 Jun, 2025 |  at  03:13 PM

  A real case study on the consequences of forgetting graceful shutdown configuration in Spring Boot: lost orders, Kafka messages, and lessons learned.

• AI Won't Take Your Job – Your Own Obsolescence Is Making You Lose It!

  Published: 8 Jun, 2025 |  at  11:38 PM

  A practical perspective on AI and the programming profession: AI is a tool, not an enemy. How developers can leverage AI to advance their careers.