Introduction High cardinality metrics can quietly destabilize a monitoring stack. A single label with user IDs or request IDs can multiply series counts and overwhelm storage, query latency, and m...

Handling backpressure in streaming systems Backpressure is the mechanism that prevents fast producers from overwhelming slow consumers. Without it, your system either drops data or collapses under...

Introduction to Dependency Injection Dependency Injection (DI) is a design pattern that implements Inversion of Control (IoC) for resolving dependencies. It’s a fundamental technique for writing m...

Introduction Software testing is a critical aspect of the development lifecycle that ensures code quality, reliability, and maintainability. A well-designed testing strategy combines different typ...

Using Ansible with GitHub Actions to Deploy Web Services to Azure In this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn how to use Ansible with GitHub Actions to deploy a simple web service to Azure without n...

Kubernetes Pod Security and Best Practices Security in Kubernetes is a critical concern for any organization running containerized workloads in production. Pods are the smallest deployable units i...

Introduction to Async/Await in C# The async/await pattern in C# revolutionized asynchronous programming by making asynchronous code nearly as simple to write and maintain as synchronous code. Intr...

Introduction Artifact versioning connects source changes with deployed binaries. A consistent strategy allows traceability, predictable rollbacks, and compatibility guarantees. Semantic Versionin...

Event streaming vs message queues for modern systems Event streaming and message queues both move data, but they model time and replay very differently. Choosing the wrong model makes it hard to s...

Introduction Code review is one of the most effective practices for improving code quality, sharing knowledge, and building better software teams. It’s a systematic examination of source code inte...

Introduction Hot partitions occur when a small subset of keys receives a disproportionate share of traffic. This creates latency spikes and throttling even when total throughput looks reasonable. ...

Introduction An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) provides a consistent, self-service experience for engineering teams. The platform abstracts infrastructure complexity while enforcing organizatio...

Idempotent consumers design for safe retries Retries are inevitable in distributed systems, so your consumers must tolerate duplicates. Idempotency is the simplest way to do that because it conver...

Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies for AWS, Azure, and GCP Cloud computing offers incredible flexibility and scalability, but without proper cost management, cloud bills can quickly spiral out of ...

Introduction Reliability engineering lessons are earned through incidents, failed rollouts, and repeated feedback from customers. The most durable lessons focus on guardrails and repeatable practi...