A developer shares insights and design considerations for building a distributed actor framework, based on experience with Dapr, Orleans, and a custom Go project.
Explores the impossibility of achieving common knowledge for coordinated attack in asynchronous distributed systems, based on Halpern and Moses' 1990 paper.
A Google engineer shares her experience using Claude Code to rapidly prototype a distributed agent orchestrator, highlighting AI's impact on complex software development.
How a headless Kubernetes service enabled zero-cost cache invalidation for Node.js microservices in a distributed system.
A critical review of a research paper proposing Raft optimizations for faster reads/writes while preserving linearizability in distributed systems.
Introducing LeaseGuard, a new lease protocol for Raft consensus that simplifies leader leases and enables faster crash recovery.
Explains idempotency keys in distributed systems, comparing UUIDs and monotonic sequences for duplicate detection and exactly-once processing.
Explains idempotency keys in distributed systems, comparing UUIDs and monotonic sequences for duplicate detection and exactly-once processing.
Analyzes LLM APIs as a distributed state synchronization problem, critiquing their abstraction and proposing a mental model based on token and cache state.
Explores building a basic Durable Execution engine using SQLite and Java to reliably persist and resume multi-step workflows, like those in agentic systems.
Explores building a basic Durable Execution engine in Java using SQLite to persist workflow state and resume from failures.
An introduction to the distributed actor model for building concurrent, resilient systems, explaining its core concepts and benefits.
A curated collection of articles on software architecture, development practices, Java updates, and testing strategies for tech professionals.
Explains service discovery in .NET 8, covering the built-in NuGet package, configuration, and integration with HttpClient.
An engineer argues that software development is a learning process, not an assembly line, and explains how to use LLMs as brainstorming partners.
Explores the compounding impact of shaving milliseconds off microservice latency in distributed systems, affecting throughput and scalability.
Explains the Store and Forward resiliency design pattern for handling service dependencies in tech systems like payments and telecom.
Explains how avoiding cross-region calls in microservices improves performance and resilience, and discusses the complexities of designing for regional isolation.
Explores the 'coordinated attack' problem in distributed systems, linking it to the impossibility of achieving common knowledge in asynchronous environments.
Explores using durable execution engines like Azure Durable Task Scheduler to build robust, long-running AI workflows, such as summarizing articles and generating newsletters.
