Design a key-value store
A Key-Value store is just a hash table, until it isn't. At scale, keys shard across servers via consistent hashing and the CAP Theorem becomes the constraint you design around. CAP Theorem Consistency
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5 Event-Driven Architecture Pitfalls to Avoid
I needed to understand the gotchas in event-driven architecture before migrating more services. Wix's engineering team documented 5 painful lessons learned from moving over 2300 microservices from request-reply to event-driven patterns. The Pitfalls ...
502s? 503s? oh my!
Above (via excalidraw) is our current architecture in the cloud. When we built our dashboards to track http_status via our rev(erse)Proxies, we saw periodic spikes of 5XX errors, which were predominately 502s with a spattering of 503s. These have to ...
