The Complete Blueprint for Designing Idempotent APIs
If you are building an API that handles money, orchestrates physical hardware, or manages critical state, you are one network timeout away from a disa...
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ZyVOPMay 22, 2026
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#Backend Engineering
Posts tagged with "Backend Engineering"
Designing Real-World Systems: How Modern Infrastructure Evolves Under Pressure
Real Systems Rarely Start With “System Design”One of the biggest misconceptions beginners have about large-scale systems is imagining they were design...
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ZyVOPMay 22, 2026
High Availability: Why Modern Systems Must Stay Online Even During Failures
The Infrastructure Was Technically “Up” But Users Could Not Use ItThe dashboards looked healthy. CPU usage remained normal. Database replicas were syn...
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ZyVOPMay 22, 2026
Fault Tolerance: Why Modern Systems Expect Failure Instead of Avoiding It
The Most Dangerous Assumption In Software EngineeringThe deployment looked perfect. Multiple backend servers. Database replicas across regions. Redis ...
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ZyVOPMay 22, 2026
Rate Limiting: Why Modern Systems Must Learn to Say No
The System Did Not Crash Because Of TrafficThe infrastructure had survived large launches before. Load balancers distributed requests correctly. Auto-...
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ZyVOPMay 21, 2026
CAP Theorem: Why Distributed Systems Cannot Have Everything
The Distributed System Worked Perfectly Until The Network FailedEverything looked healthy. Database replicas were synchronized. API latency remained l...
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ZyVOPMay 21, 2026
Event-Driven Systems: Why Modern Architectures Communicate Through Events
The Architecture Started Breaking In Places Nobody ExpectedAt first, the backend looked clean. The payment service called the email service directly. ...
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ZyVOPMay 21, 2026
Message Queues: Why Modern Systems Stop Processing Everything Immediately
The System Worked Perfectly Until Traffic Arrived All At OnceEverything looked fine during testing. A user uploads an image. The backend stores the fi...
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ZyVOPMay 21, 2026
Consistent Hashing: The Hidden Technique Behind Stable Distributed Systems
The Infrastructure Worked Fine Until One Server Was AddedEverything looked stable for months. Traffic distribution was predictable. Cache hit rates we...
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ZyVOPMay 21, 2026