Scaling & Infra22 min read
Serverless on AWS in Production — What Nobody Tells You Until It Hurts
Not a "what is serverless" post. The stuff you learn after the demo, from someone who's run it at scale.
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39 long-form articles on production engineering — how real systems fail, why, and what actually fixed them.
3 articles matching “SQS”
Production Incidents25 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…
Kafka & Pipelines25 min read
How Kafka Finally Solved the “One Slow Message Blocks Everything” Problem — Share Groups, Explained Simply
You add 24 more workers to fix Kafka lag — and they all sit idle. Meanwhile one huge message is stuck at the front of a partition, and nothing behind it moves.