BACKEND
Redis Queues vs Direct API Processing
When to do the work inside the request, when to queue it, and the four things that make a queue safe to retry.
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#Reliability
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ENGINEERING
How to Handle Third-Party API Failures
Every external dependency will fail. Timeouts, breakers, backoff and a defined degraded state are the four things that decide whether that becomes your outage.
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DATABASES
What Happens When Your Database Goes Down?
Read-only mode, buffered writes and a rehearsed failover turn a database outage into degraded service instead of a dead product.
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