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Rate Limiting: Token Bucket, Sliding Window, and Distributed Systems

Rate limiting protects APIs from abuse. Learn token bucket, sliding window, fixed window algorithms and distributed rate limiting at scale.

#api #rate-limiting #architecture #security

Relational Databases: ACID Transactions and Data Foundation

Learn how relational databases work, from ACID properties and transactions to joins, indexing, and normalization in PostgreSQL and MySQL.

#databases #sql #relational #postgresql #mysql

RESTful API Design: Best Practices for Building Web APIs

Learn REST principles, resource naming, HTTP methods, status codes, and best practices. Design clean, maintainable, and scalable RESTful APIs.

#api #rest #architecture #web-services

The Saga Pattern: Managing Distributed Transactions

Learn saga pattern for distributed transactions without two-phase commit. Understand choreography vs orchestration with practical examples and production considerations.

#microservices #saga #distributed-transactions #patterns

Search Scaling: Sharding, Routing, and Horizontal Growth

Learn how to scale search systems horizontally with index sharding strategies, query routing, replication patterns, and cluster management techniques.

#search #scaling #elasticsearch #performance

Service Mesh: Managing Microservice Communication

Learn how service mesh architectures handle microservice communication, sidecar proxies, traffic management, and security with Istio and Linkerd.

#microservices #service-mesh #istio #architecture

Service Orchestration: Coordinating Distributed Workflows

Explore service orchestration patterns for managing distributed workflows, workflow engines, saga implementations, and how orchestration compares to choreography.

#microservices #orchestration #workflow #saga