DoorDash
DoorDash's Break From the Monolith: A Platform-First Migration
How DoorDash extracted its logistics and dispatch systems from a Django monolith first, and built a service platform to avoid microservices sprawl.
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Microservices
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Airbnb
Airbnb's Long Road From a Rails Monolith to Services
Airbnb's honest account of splitting its Rails monolith into services, the sprawl it caused, and the platform investment that fixed it.
2 min read
System Design
The Transactional Outbox Pattern
How the transactional outbox pattern makes updating a database and publishing an event atomic, without a distributed transaction.
2 min read
Netflix
Zuul and Hystrix: How Netflix Kept a Thousand Microservices From Taking Each Other Down
The story of Netflix's edge gateway and circuit-breaker library, and why isolating failure mattered more than avoiding it in a microservices fleet.
3 min read
Amazon
The API Mandate: How One Internal Memo Forced Amazon Into Services
How an internal Bezos mandate requiring all Amazon teams to expose functionality only through service interfaces set up the conditions for AWS.
3 min read
Spring Boot
Circuit Breakers, Bulkheads, and Retries: Resilience4j in Spring Boot
How to combine Resilience4j's circuit breaker, bulkhead, and retry modules in Spring Boot without letting them fight each other.
3 min read
System Design
The Saga Pattern for Distributed Transactions
Choreography versus orchestration, compensating actions, and the eventual consistency you actually get from the saga pattern.
2 min read