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Error Retries: The Immune Response That Can Turn Autoimmune

Adding retries makes systems more reliable — until it doesn't. The systems that go down because of retries outnumber those that go down because they lacked them.

Jun 14, 2026distributed-systemsreliabilitybackend

The Outbox Pattern: Solving the Dual-Write Problem

Every microservice eventually hits the dual-write trap. The outbox pattern is the right fix — but it moves complexity from your application code into your infrastructure.

Jun 30, 2026system-designmicroservicesdistributed-systems

PostHog's Architecture: What Kafka, ClickHouse, and Feature Flags Teach You

Skip the product pitch. PostHog is worth studying for its ingestion pipeline and its feature-flag latency fix — two patterns worth stealing whether or not you ever touch the product.

Jul 6, 2026system-designdistributed-systemsmessaging

Service-to-Service Authentication: The Threat Model You're Ignoring

Most microservices deployments skip internal auth entirely. Here's what that costs you, and the three patterns that fix it.

Jun 24, 2026microservicessecurityauthentication