The Claim-Check Pattern: Handling Large Messages in Distributed Systems
Learn how the Claim-Check pattern solves the challenge of transferring large payloads in messaging systems by storing data externally and passing lightweight tokens instead.
Category: Architecture
Retry Pattern: Building Resilient Applications
Learn how the Retry pattern helps applications handle transient failures gracefully, improving stability and user experience in distributed systems.
Anti-Corruption Layer Pattern: Protecting Your Modern Architecture
Learn how the Anti-Corruption Layer pattern helps you integrate legacy systems with modern applications without compromising your clean architecture design.
Rate Limiting Pattern: Efficiently Managing Throttled Services
Learn how the rate limiting pattern helps you avoid throttling errors and improve throughput when working with services that impose usage limits.
Slowly Changing Dimensions: Managing Historical Data in Data Warehouses
Dimensional data changes over time in unpredictable ways. From simple overwrites to complex hybrid approaches, understanding SCD types helps balance historical accuracy, data integrity, and system performance.
Domain-Driven Design: Bridging Business and Code
Domain-Driven Design promises software that speaks business language, but the journey from database-centric to domain-centric architecture reveals how modeling complexity evolved beyond CRUD operations.
IT Naming Conventions: Building Clarity into Infrastructure
Naming conventions transform infrastructure chaos into clarity. From hostnames to database tables, discover why systematic naming matters and how to build conventions that scale across environments, networks, and cloud platforms.