# Экстремально чистый код
Старый код редко лежит бесплатно. Даже если его никто не вызывает, он попадает в поиск, ревью, CI, локальный запуск и голову каждому новому разработчи…
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Старый код редко лежит бесплатно. Даже если его никто не вызывает, он попадает в поиск, ревью, CI, локальный запуск и голову каждому новому разработчи…
The Monolith is Dead (Again): Why Microservices Are Still Overhyped for Most SaaS Every few years, the tech world declares the monolith dead, ushering…
How decoupling work from requests helps systems stay stable under load In the previous part, we saw the limitations of synchronous systems. When every…
Building Real-Time Chat That Doesn’t Break at Scale (and Actually Uses AI Properly) Most teams underestimate chat. When you try to go past the demo, c…
Microservices: A Practical Crash Course for Engineers Who Actually Ship Microservices have become one of the most discussed architectural patterns in …
WHAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE ABOUT BANKING SOFTWARE When people think about software for banks, they usually think about the customer-facing side — …
For years, REST APIs have been the standard. Then GraphQL came in with promises like: “Fetch exactly what you need” “Reduce API calls” “More flexible …
Sometimes the difference between a flaky system and a reliable one is just a few lines of retry logic. Network calls fail, APIs timeout, and transient…
Some Java services don't fail because of traffic. They fail because background jobs don't know when to stop. A background job should never be able to …
The 6ms latency improvement from one character change — how &str over String transformed our hot path performance Borrowed Strings: API Designs Th…
The HTTP Client Showdown Every Spring Developer Needs to Understand If you've been writing Spring applications for a while, you've probably had this c…
Why Message Queues? Imagine Service A needs to send emails after a user signs up. If it calls the email service directly: What if the email service is…
Standard advice for refresh tokens is pretty straightforward: rotate on every use store them hashed keep expiry short Done, right? Not quite. Rotation…
What cave diving taught me about distributed systems I've been building backend systems for 14 years. I've also spent a decent chunk of the last decad…
Choosing Rust for a backend can feel irrational at first. If your short‑term goal is raw development speed, Rust does not win. The compiler is unforgi…
Introduction In modern application development, securing user authentication is a foundational requirement. As systems scale and threats become more s…
A lot of engineering teams spend time preparing for scale before they prepare for ambiguity. That sounds backward at first, but in practice ambiguity …
When I first learned about queues and background workers, I imagined something like this: request comes in job goes into queue worker picks it up imme…
This post is part of the series The True Code of Production Systems . The first time you add caching to a system, it feels like a superpower. One afte…
This is a bonus post in the AuthShield series - a production-ready standalone authentication microservice. The original 4-part series covered building…
Everyone secures webhook ingestion. Almost nobody talks about SSRF via the delivery worker. I've been staring at webhook architectures for years, and …
Rust vs Go vs Zig: High-Performance Backend Services in 2026 Three languages compete for the performance-critical backend market. Each makes different…
Book: Observability for LLM Applications — paperback and hardcover on Amazon · Ebook from Apr 22 Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Complete…
Book: Observability for LLM Applications · Ebook from Apr 22 Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Complete Guide to Go Programming + Hexagonal…
Book: Observability for LLM Applications · Ebook from Apr 22 Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Complete Guide to Go Programming + Hexagonal…
What happens if we take a scientific approach to analyzing the most common claims about GraphQL vs REST? You might be thinking that you know the answe…
** The Brief ** A fintech startup needed a platform that lets other fintech companies the kind building neobanks, savings apps, lending products in Ni…
DORA-метрики легко обсуждать как что-то довольно очевидное: выбрал четыре показателя, подключил данные, построил графики — готово. На практике все инт…
Before we begin, if you have come directly to this post (Part 2 of 6), here is Part 1 where I explain the basics and set the expectations from this se…
If your deployment, sync, backup, or report workflow depends on scheduled or chained automation, automation pipeline reliability is not a nice-to-have…