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Designing Reliable Webhooks
Design webhooks as signed, retrying, observable delivery contracts that both providers and consumers can operate safely.
2026-07-15 · 14 min read
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Rate Limiting Algorithms Compared
Compare six rate limiters by boundary behavior, burst fairness, precision, memory, weighted costs, clocks, headers, and deterministic tests.
2026-07-13 · 18 min read
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Background Job Systems: Queues, Retries, and Idempotency
Build background jobs around durable state, leased attempts, bounded retries, idempotent effects, and evidence operators can trust.
2026-06-30 · 15 min read
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Secure File Upload Pipelines
Treat uploaded files as untrusted byte streams until bounded ingestion, type validation, quarantine, scanning, and authorized publication succeed.
2026-06-18 · 14 min read
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Cursor Pagination at Scale
Build cursor pagination from a stable total order, query-bound opaque tokens, matching indexes, and explicit change semantics.
2026-06-06 · 13 min read
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Authorization Models: RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC
Compare RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC by how they express policy, preserve tenant boundaries, support revocation, and produce testable decisions.
2026-05-25 · 15 min read
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Resilient Outbound HTTP Clients
Build outbound HTTP clients that reuse connections, honor one deadline, retry only safe failures, bound responses, and expose useful telemetry.
2026-05-13 · 14 min read
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Zero-Downtime Database Migrations
Evolve a live database through expand, migrate, and contract phases with dual compatibility, resumable backfills, lock-aware DDL, and explicit rollback points.
2026-05-01 · 14 min read
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Authentication: Sessions, JWT, and OAuth 2.0
Choose sessions, JWTs, and OAuth 2.0 safely with correct cookies, token verification, PKCE, rotation, revocation, and service authentication.
2026-04-23 · 14 min read
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Asynchronous APIs for Long-Running Operations
Model long-running API work as a durable operation resource with explicit acceptance, progress, cancellation, results, notifications, and retention.
2026-04-19 · 14 min read
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API Error Contracts That Clients Can Actually Use
Design API errors with honest HTTP semantics, stable machine codes, precise field locations, retry guidance, safe localized messages, and compatibility tests.
2026-04-07 · 13 min read
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Caching Layers: From HTTP to the Database
Design coherent browser, CDN, application, distributed, query, and database caches without trading speed for stale data or outages.
2025-12-20 · 11 min read