Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• 80/20 Of The Week: The Outbox Pattern

  16 Mar, 2026

  How the outbox pattern keeps database updates and event publishing reliable.

• 80/20 Of The Week: Partitioning and Sharding

  9 Mar, 2026

  The core concepts of horizontal and vertical data splitting, partitioning vs sharding, and sharding strategies.

• 80/20 Of The Week: Idempotency and Resilience

  3 Mar, 2026

  How to use retries properly and build resilience into your distributed systems with idempotency.

• 80/20 Of The Week: Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)

  23 Feb, 2026

  Why and when to use Event-Driven Architecture over request-driven systems, and how Kafka and RabbitMQ fit into the picture.