#distributed systems
4 articles tagged distributed systems.
System Design: Building a Notification Service for 50 Million Users
A complete system design walkthrough — from blank page to production architecture — covering fan-out, multi-channel delivery, rate limiting, retry logic, and the trade-offs engineers get wrong in interviews and production.
Temporal vs Spring Batch: Fixing Enterprise Java's Silent Job Failure Problem
Many enterprise Java teams have scheduled jobs failing silently, running concurrently, and corrupting data — without knowing. This guide explains how Temporal's durable execution model solves these problems, with complete code examples migrating from @Scheduled and Spring Batch.
You Can't Debug What You Can't See: Observability, Monitoring & Logging in Microservices
Most microservices teams add logging as an afterthought and call it observability. After running distributed systems at scale, here's what actually separates teams that debug in minutes from teams that debug in days.
Microservices Done Right: Patterns I've Learned from 12 Years of Enterprise Architecture
Real-world patterns, anti-patterns, and hard lessons from designing and delivering microservices for global enterprises — from service decomposition to event-driven architecture to the observability you'll wish you had from day one.