2 Oct 2026
Relational Databases: Performance and Tradeoffs
How normalisation, indexes, transactions, and ACID guarantees affect performance—and how to make deliberate compromises without losing the rules your application depends on.
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Exploring technology, ideas, and the questions worth thinking about.
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When Microservices Fail: Sagas, Outbox, and Recovery
A practical guide to handling partial failures across microservices with Sagas, compensating transactions, reliable events, and idempotency.
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Distributed Tracing Explained: Following a Request Across Microservices
A practical introduction to distributed tracing, context propagation, and correlated logging, with a modern Java and Spring Boot example.