Monolith vs microservices: what you actually trade
Microservices do not eliminate complexity; they move in-memory function calls over the network into distributed systems. What you gain, what you lose, and when to switch.
The engineering questions you get asked, and the bugs you actually hit. Drawn, one mechanism at a time, in the order the videos ship.
Microservices do not eliminate complexity; they move in-memory function calls over the network into distributed systems. What you gain, what you lose, and when to switch.
RabbitMQ and SQS are message queues where messages are consumed and deleted. Kafka is an append-only distributed commit log where events are retained and replayed.
When a downstream service slows down, it can exhaust thread pools and take down your entire architecture. How the Circuit Breaker pattern isolates failure.
Rate limiters protect servers from traffic surges, DoS attacks, and abusive scraping. How token bucket and leaky bucket work, and which one your API needs.