Core Patterns • November 5, 2024 • 4 min read
Retry Strategies Done Right
Backoff, jitter, bounded attempts, and the retriable-vs-non-retriable error classification that separates resilience from retry storms.
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Core Patterns • September 18, 2024 • 5 min read
Circuit Breakers — Beyond the Basics
How circuit breakers actually behave in production, tuning the state transitions, and the subtle interactions with retries and timeouts that cause most outages.
Core Patterns • July 10, 2024 • 4 min read
Consumer-Driven Contracts — Testing APIs Without Integration Pain
Why contract testing replaces most of your end-to-end suite, how Pact and Spring Cloud Contract fit in, and the workflow that makes teams actually adopt it.
Core Patterns • May 22, 2024 • 4 min read
The Strangler Fig Pattern — Migrations That Actually Ship
How to replace legacy systems one slice at a time without a big-bang rewrite. The pattern, the gates, and the traps that stretch migrations into years.
Core Patterns • February 14, 2024 • 4 min read
API Versioning Strategies — Picking the Right One
URL versioning, header versioning, media-type versioning — their real trade-offs, and how to pick a strategy you won't regret two years in.
Core Patterns • December 11, 2023 • 5 min read
Dead Letter Queues — Handling the Unhandleable
What DLQs are, why you must have one for every message consumer, and the operational patterns that keep bad messages from blocking the good ones.