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Nov 5, 2024
2 min read
Backend Engineering and Architecture
An external service can be unavailable for a few minutes. Our system shouldn’t turn every short interruption into hours of manual recovery.
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Sep 10, 2024
3 min read
Production, Reliability, and Scale
If an operation only works when every dependency is healthy and every message arrives once, we’ve finished the happy path, not the complete feature.