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When building distributed systems, generating unique identifiers becomes tricky. But why do we need them to be both unique AND sortable? Uniqueness is obvious - you can't have duplicate IDs causing data corruption or overwriting records. But sortabil...
This is the second part of our Strategic DDD series. I hoped to deliver it earlier, but it took me over 2 years to get it done. I hope it will be helpful and enjoyable. In the first part, we explored how to identify subdomains within a business domai...
馃搶 TL;DR Consistent hashing is a strategy for evenly assigning keys (like user_id, session_id) to servers with minimal disruption when servers are added or removed. Naive approaches (e.g., hash(key) % N) cause massive remapping on any change to the...
Rate limiting controls the flow of requests to prevent system overloads. To draw an analogy, it's like traffic lights managing the flow of vehicles to avoid congestion. The concept might seem straightforward, but implementing an effective rate-limiti...
Introduction In the realm of software development, effective documentation plays a pivotal role in facilitating understanding among team members and collaboration between teams in an organization. However, conveying the intricacies of complex systems...
Why does the structure matter? In one of the previous posts, I discussed the influence of coding conventions on software development. Now I would like to elaborate on gains of having a well-structured codebase. The structure of the codebase should vi...
