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.
Posts tagged with #distributed-systems
Two-Phase Commit Protocol Explained
Learn the two-phase commit protocol for distributed transactions: prepare and commit phases, coordinator role, failure handling, and trade-offs.
CAP Theorem: Consistency vs Availability Trade-offs
Learn the fundamental trade-off between Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance in distributed systems with practical examples.
Cache Patterns: Thundering Herd, Stampede Prevention, and Cache Warming
A comprehensive guide to advanced cache patterns — thundering herd, cache stampede prevention with distributed locking and probabilistic early expiration, and cache warming strategies.
Distributed Caching: Scaling Cache Across Multiple Nodes
A comprehensive guide to distributed caching — consistent hashing, cache sharding, replica consistency, cache clustering, and handling the unique challenges of multi-node cache environments.
Caching Strategies: A Practical Guide
Learn the main caching patterns — cache-aside, write-through, write-behind, and refresh-ahead — plus how to pick TTLs, invalidate stale data, and distribute caches across nodes.