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Microservices & Distributed Systems

Patterns, protocols, and practices for building resilient distributed systems — from API gateways to event-driven architecture.

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Intermediate8 hours

Communication Between Services

Master how microservices talk to each other — synchronous REST and gRPC, async messaging, event-driven patterns, resilience, and distributed consistency.

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Intermediate11 hours

System Design Fundamentals

Learn how to design scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems — from single servers to distributed architectures used by millions of users.

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Articles

Event Sourcing vs CQRS

Event Sourcing and CQRS are two patterns that often appear together in microservices and domain-driven design — but they solve different pro…

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Event-Driven Architecture: Choreography, Orchestration, and Event Sourcing

Synchronous microservices create invisible chains: when the payment service is slow, the order service is slow, and when the email service i…

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Docker vs Kubernetes

Docker and Kubernetes are often mentioned together, but they solve different problems. Docker packages your application and its dependencies…

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Monolith vs Microservices vs Modular Monolith

Every new project faces the same question: one big application or many small services? The answer is rarely binary. A monolith ships fast an…

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Kafka vs RabbitMQ vs Amazon SQS

Asynchronous messaging decouples services in time — producers send messages without waiting for consumers. But not all message brokers work …

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Communication Protocols Between Services

Modern backends rarely speak one language. Clients hit REST endpoints through an API Gateway. Mobile apps send GraphQL queries to fetch exac…

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