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39 long-form articles on production engineering — how real systems fail, why, and what actually fixed them.

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Architecture DecisionsJun 24, 202622 min read

Life Beyond Distributed Transactions — Why Hyperscale Apps Quietly Abandoned 2PC, and the Two Words That Replaced It

A plain-language walkthrough of Pat Helland's 2007 classic "Life beyond Distributed Transactions" — the paper that named the patterns every large system already uses.

Production IncidentsMay 9, 202625 min read

“We Have Exactly-Once Delivery” — The Lie Your Architecture Is Telling You

Why “our queue guarantees exactly-once” is almost always a lie once your flow crosses a component boundary: Kafka EOS scope, ack-after-process, unique constraints, SQS FIFO, DB transactions with SMTP, retries without…