Tag: microservices

All the articles with the tag "microservices".

• 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.

• I Don't Like Microservices, and Here's Why

  Published: 1 Jun, 2025 |  at  01:52 PM

  A real-world perspective from a backend developer: when to and when not to use microservices, trade-offs with monoliths, and lessons for small teams.