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Articles tagged with #Microservices

A curated list of engineering series, deep dives, and notes related to #Microservices.

Engineering Kafka from First Principles • Part 19 2026-10-20

Building a Real-Time Event-Driven Order System with Apache Kafka

Build an end-to-end event-driven microservices architecture in Java using Apache Kafka, Schema Registry, Avro, Dead Letter Topics, and Kafka Streams.

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Engineering Docker & Container Internals from First Principles • Part 17 2026-10-13

Multi-Container Orchestration: Docker Compose Architecture and Declarative Configs

Master multi-container orchestration with Docker Compose: declarative specs, service networks, volumes, and depends_on health check readiness sequencing.

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Engineering System Design & Distributed Systems from First Principles • Part 11 2026-09-22

The Circuit Breaker Pattern: Protecting Services from Cascading Failures

Master the Circuit Breaker pattern. Learn how state transitions (Closed, Open, Half-Open) isolate failing dependencies and prevent cascading outages.

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Engineering System Design & Distributed Systems from First Principles • Part 7 2026-09-08

Distributed Transactions: Two-Phase Commit (2PC) vs The Saga Pattern

Master distributed transactions. Compare Two-Phase Commit (2PC) blocking mechanics with Saga Pattern choreography, orchestration, and compensating actions.

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Engineering Kafka from First Principles • Part 1 2026-08-18

Why Apache Kafka Exists: Solving Microservice N² Integration Spaghetti

Discover why Apache Kafka was created at LinkedIn. Learn how central append-only event logs solve microservice point-to-point integration spaghetti.

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Engineering System Design & Distributed Systems from First Principles • Part 0 2026-08-14

Mastering System Design & Distributed Systems: Series Introduction & Learning Roadmap

Discover what you will learn in this 20-part series on System Design & Distributed Systems. Build a distributed rate limiter and master Raft.

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