Archives: 2023/10

2023

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The initial request was straightforward: a new analytics service required a near real-time feed of user profile changes

2023-10-27 Data Engineering

CDC Scala Monorepo MySQL Debezium Kafka Akka

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The requirement was deceptively simple: enable multiple users to edit a financial data grid simultaneously. The existing

2023-10-27 Backend Development

MobX SQL Cypress Express.js WebSocket Real-Time Collaborative Editing

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The operational burden of managing TLS certificate lifecycles for a large fleet of internal microservices became untenab

2023-10-27 DevOps

Security mTLS Ansible AWS SQS Automation PKI

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Observing the internal state transitions of a distributed consensus algorithm is notoriously difficult. Standard logging

2023-10-27 Distributed Systems

Kubernetes Go Jetpack Compose GCP GKE Raft Web API

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The system had grown beyond our mental models. What started as a handful of Node.js microservices had metastasized into

2023-10-27 Observability

Express.js OpenSearch Dgraph Loki Seaborn

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The project mandate was uncompromising: an event-driven ingestion endpoint capable of handling tens of thousands of requ

2023-10-27 Backend Development

Performance Serverless AWS Lambda ScyllaDB C++