2 articles tagged with "distributed systems"

• Safe retries in distributed systems

  August 29, 2026

  Retrying failures in distributed systems is not as simple as it seems - done naively, it can corrupt your business logic or take down your entire system.

  • #distributed systems
  • #retries
  • #safe retries
  • #aws
  • #mttr

• Designing systems for 'unknown unknowns'

  January 22, 2026

  When a system is deployed to the wild, there will anyways be stuff that fails in unexpected ways, meaning failure is inevitable because of unknown unknowns.

  • #distributed systems
  • #operations
  • #aws
  • #operational excellence
  • #monitoring
  • #testing