Archives: 2023/10

2023

10

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A set of Flask-based microservices were exhibiting classic cascading failure symptoms. The order-service depended on bot

2023-10-27 Backend Architecture

Flask Microservices API Gateway Envoy Proxy Resilience Engineering

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The initial proof-of-concept for our internal code review tool was plagued by predictable issues. Comments were managed

2023-10-27 Software Architecture

XState WebSocket Zustand CRDT Code Review Vite Spring Boot Real-Time

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The latency graph for our primary Flask monolith was starting to look like a seismograph during an earthquake. Specifica

2023-10-27 Backend Development

Flask Microservices LevelDB Python Rust Tonic Axum ORM

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The API gateway was becoming a chokepoint. Every single interaction from our highly reactive Solid.js frontend—fetching

2023-10-27 Architecture

Security Go HashiCorp Vault DynamoDB Solid.js

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A data corruption bug that only manifests in the production environment is one of the most challenging problems in distr

2023-10-27 Architecture

DevOps Scala Kafka Packer TypeScript Immutable Infrastructure

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The initial RAG prototype was a monolithic Flask application running on a single VM. It worked for the demo, but product

2023-10-27 MLOps

Fluentd Nginx CircleCI Azure Functions LlamaIndex