Tag: system-design

All the articles with the tag "system-design".

• Understanding Zero Trust in 5 Minutes

  Published: 3 Sep, 2025 |  at  10:12 AM

  Explaining the Zero Trust security model: core principles, comparison with traditional security, and practical examples.

• Understanding Saga Pattern in 5 Minutes

  Published: 2 Sep, 2025 |  at  11:59 AM

  Explaining Saga Pattern: distributed transactions in microservices, Event-Driven vs Orchestration, compensation, and eventual consistency.

• Saga Pattern: When Theory Meets Reality

  Published: 2 Sep, 2025 |  at  09:02 AM

  Real-world lessons from implementing Saga Pattern: partial failure, imperfect compensation, duplicate events, and the trade-off between Orchestration and Choreography.

• Be Careful with Retry – Don't DDoS Your Own System

  Published: 22 Jun, 2025 |  at  04:02 PM

  Uncontrolled retries can cause cascading failures. A guide to proper retry with exponential backoff, jitter, circuit breaker, and deferred retry.