Archive - The Scalable Thread

What is the Claim-Check Pattern in Event-Driven Systems?

Understanding How to Handle Large & Sensitive Payloads in Distributed Systems

Mar 7 •

February 2025

What is Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS)?

Understanding How Separating Reads and Writes Can Improve Performance

Feb 28 •

What is Saga Pattern in Distributed Systems?

Understanding How Microservices Coordinate Distributed Transactions

Feb 21 •

What is Event Sourcing?

Understanding Event Sourcing, How it works, and How to Rebuild State

Feb 14 •

What is Service Discovery?

Understanding How Services are Discovered in Distributed Systems

Feb 7 •

January 2025

What is the Byzantine Generals Problem in Distributed Systems?

Understanding How Byzantine Nodes Behave in Distributed Systems

Jan 31 •

How Message Queues Work

Understanding Publishing, Storage, Consumption, and Fault tolerance in Message Queues

Jan 24 •

What is Function Sharding in Serverless Computing?

Understanding How Data Computation Can be Divided-and-Conquered in Serverless Architecture

Jan 17 •

How to Handle Hot Shard Problem?

Understanding Different Approaches to Address Hot Key/Partition Problem

Jan 10 •

Sidecar Pattern for Single Node Multi-Container Applications

Understanding Sidecar Design Pattern for Containerized Applications

Jan 3 •

December 2024

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