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reliability
2 articles in this category
System Design Advanced: Security, Rate Limiting, and Reliability
TLDR: Three reliability tools every backend system needs: Rate Limiting prevents API spam and DDoS, Circuit Breakers stop cascading failures when downstream services degrade, and Bulkheads isolate failure blast radius. Knowing when and how to combine...
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The 8 Fallacies of Distributed Systems
TLDR: In 1994, L. Peter Deutsch at Sun Microsystems listed 8 assumptions that developers make about distributed systems — all of which are false. Believing them leads to hard-to-reproduce bugs, timeout cascades, and security holes. Knowing them is a ...
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