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ujja6d ago • 7 min read
You Know What's Worse Than Not Being Able to Log In?
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. You Know What's.....
#devchallenge#bugsmash#distributedsystems#webdev
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Don Johnson22h ago • 8 min read
My QUIC transport had never once been executed. Here's what happened when I ran it.
I built a plant-inspired coordination protocol, wrote 500 lines of real QUIC networking for it, and ...
#rust#distributedsystems#networking#ai
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Madhav M S5d ago • 19 min read
Building Sluice: QoS-Aware Capacity Governance for Self-Hosted LLM Inference
📦 Project: https://github.com/VampiricCyborg/sluice 1. The Problem: When Capacity Becomes...
#distributedsystems#llm#kubernetes#systemdesign
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Dev Bilaspure2d ago • 9 min read
My First Go + Kafka Project, and What It Actually Taught Me
In this post: what building a reliable webhook delivery system in Go and Kafka, my first project wit...
#go#kafka#distributedsystems#beginners
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Subham3d ago • 8 min read
Dissecting Databases: CockroachDB Has Almost Every Postgres Feature - So Why Is It the Default Answer for Distributed SQL?
The Question Nobody Asks Out Loud Open CockroachDB's docs and the first thing you notice...
#cockroachdb#postgres#distributedsystems#database
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krishnadaspc1d ago • 13 min read
Building Distributed Systems in Elixir: Part 5 — Supervisor From Scratch
In the previous part of this series, we explored process links. A linked worker that crashes sends....
#elixir#distributedsystems#programming
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Pedro Rogério2d ago • 8 min read
My idempotency library had one job. A dropped connection made it run the payment twice.
quayside survived 1,254 dead mutants and an adversarial review. The bug that got through was four li...
#node#typescript#distributedsystems#opensource
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Walker Miller6d ago • 5 min read
The caller gave up ten minutes ago: orphaned retries in agent fleets
A user closes the tab. An upstream request times out. A parent agent gets cancelled by its own budge...
#retries#failuremodes#distributedsystems#reliability
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Ramesh Yara2d ago • 7 min read
The Outbox Pattern Is Not Enough
The textbook version of the transactional outbox is tight. You save the domain entity and an outbox....
#kafka#distributedsystems#microservices#springboot
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krishnadaspc6d ago • 4 min read
Building a Distributed System in Go: Part 1 — In-Process Message Passing & CSP Primitives
Welcome to Part 1 of the Go Distributed Systems Lab series! Over the course of 20 hands-on projects,...
#go#distributedsystems#backend
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Jules Smeets6h ago • 5 min read
Dynamic machine ID leases in Elixir
Distributed ID generators often look simple: combine a timestamp, a counter, and a machine ID....
#elixir#distributedsystems
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Pedro Rogério4d ago • 7 min read
"half-open" twice is not the same state: the bug that shaped breakwater 1.0
I built a distributed circuit breaker on Redis. Compare-and-set on the state name looked correct and...
#node#distributedsystems#typescript#opensource
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Kainat Saricioglu2d ago • 10 min read
Your Database Said "Success." Your Message Broker Said "Try Again."
This is where distributed systems get interesting. If you've worked with backend systems long...
#backenddevelopment#microservices#distributedsystems#architecture
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Jayakumar Ramalingam3d ago • 6 min read
Event-driven AI agents: Build multi-agent workflows that survive production failures
AI agents become fragile when they are connected in long synchronous chains. An event bus lets them....
#distributedsystems#eventdrivenarchitecture#ai#agents
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Yogendra Singh3d ago • 4 min read
Database Bloat Is a Silent Tax on Every Write-Heavy System — Here's What Nobody Tells You
Every write-heavy system I've worked on eventually hits the same wall, and it's rarely the wall...
#distributedsystems#systemdesign#bugsmash#devchallenge
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krishnadaspc6d ago • 6 min read
Building Distributed Systems in Elixir: Part 3 — Process Monitoring
In the previous parts of this series, we built a stateful process using a mailbox and then added...
#elixir#erlang#distributedsystems#programming
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Gavriliuc Vlada2d ago • 4 min read
The State Machine Hiding Inside Every Construction Project
Here's a distributed systems problem you probably haven't thought about: dozens of independent teams...
#distributedsystems#softwareengineering#systemdesign
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Venkatesan Ramar2d ago • 10 min read
Distributed Locking in Practice: Guarantees, Failure Scenarios and Better Alternatives (1/4)
Distributed systems solve many problems by dividing work across multiple machines. The same...
#distributedsystems#database#systemdesign#tutorial
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Alok Ranjan Daftuar2d ago • 3 min read
Multi-Agent Systems Architecture: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Production Reality
An agent stuck in an infinite retry loop doesn't show up in your error rate. It shows up in your AWS...
#ai#architecture#distributedsystems#python
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Urvish Shah1d ago • 11 min read
Clock Synchronization in Distributed Databases — Part 2: Atomic Clocks, The Source of Truth
Part 2: Atomic Clocks, The Source of Truth This is Part 2 of a 5-part series on clock...
#architecture#database#distributedsystems#systemdesign
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krishnadaspc5d ago • 7 min read
Building Distributed Systems in Elixir: Part 4 — Process Linking
In the previous part of this series, we used process monitors to observe when another process...
#elixir#distributedsystems#erlang#programming
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Raiyan C1d ago • 2 min read
Why HTTP 429 Should Not Count Against a Job's Retry Budget
Most retry implementations—including BullMQ, custom wrappers, and managed queues—treat every non-2xx...
#distributedsystems#retrylogic#httpstatuscodes#queuemanagement
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krishnadaspc9h ago • 6 min read
Building Distributed Systems in Elixir: Part 6 — Named Processes
In the previous part of this series, we built a tiny supervisor from scratch. When a worker crashed...
#elixir#distributedsystems#programming
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oludeleoluwapelumi4d ago • 9 min read
TOCTOU in Payment Systems: When Validation Becomes Stale Before Commit
The formal problem: CWE-367 Time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) is a formally catalogued class.....
#python#security#backend#distributedsystems
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