Publish/Subscribe Patterns: Topics, Subscriptions, Filtering
Learn publish-subscribe messaging patterns: topic hierarchies, subscription management, message filtering, fan-out, and dead letter queues.
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RabbitMQ: The Versatile Message Broker
Explore RabbitMQ's exchange-queue-binding model, routing patterns, dead letter queues, and how it compares to Kafka for different messaging workloads.
Rate Limiting: Algorithms for Distributed Systems
Rate limiting protects APIs from abuse. Learn token bucket, sliding window, fixed window algorithms and distributed rate limiting at scale.
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.
Resilience Patterns: Retry, Timeout, Bulkhead & Fallback
Build systems that survive failures. Learn retry with backoff, timeout patterns, bulkhead isolation, circuit breakers, and fallback strategies.
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.
The Saga Pattern: Managing Distributed Transactions
Learn how sagas coordinate distributed transactions without two-phase commit. Compare choreography, orchestration, compensation, and production trade-offs.
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.
Service Choreography: Event-Driven Distributed Workflows
Learn service choreography patterns for distributed workflows through events, sagas with choreography, and when to prefer events over orchestration.
Service Mesh: Managing Microservice Communication
Learn how service mesh architectures handle microservice communication, sidecar proxies, traffic management, and security with Istio and Linkerd.