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Circuit Breakers: Building Systems That Survive Downstream Failures

Apr 13, 2026

Your downstream service will fail. Not might - will. Learn how to tackle these partitions in production.

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Consensus Algorithms: Raft Explained From First Principles

Apr 6, 2026

Distributed agreement is fundamentally hard. Here’s how Raft actually works

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Structured Outputs: JSON, Tools, and Function Calling That Actually Work

Mar 30, 2026

Getting reliable structured data from LLMs is harder than it looks

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CAP Theorem: What It Actually Means (Not What You Think)

Mar 23, 2026

Everyone quotes CAP theorem, but no one really understands it.

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