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    • Part 1 — Foundations
      • What Is a Distributed System?
      • System Models
      • Network Model
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    • Part 2 — Communication & Coordination
      • Reliability & Retries
      • Service Discovery
      • Distributed Locks
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    • Part 3 — Replication, Consistency & Consensus
      • Consistency Models
      • CAP Theorem
      • Paxos vs Raft
      • Quorums & Voting
    • Part 4 — Fault Tolerance & High Availability
      • Fault Tolerance vs High Availability
      • Failure Detection
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    • Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing
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System Design & Architecture

System design and software architecture articles covering architectural patterns, API design, caching strategies, scalability trade-offs and real-world production design decisions.

Architectural Patterns for Distributed Systems – A Deep Dive

February 13, 2026April 28, 2025 by Rahul Suryawanshi

A deep dive into architectural patterns for distributed systems, covering key design approaches like microservices, event-driven, CQRS, and service meshes with practical engineering insights

Categories System Design & Architecture, Technology Tags Architectural Patterns, Distributed Systems, Event Driven Architecture, Microservices, Service Mesh, Software Architecture

Designing a Consistent and Well-Structured REST API

March 27, 2026April 27, 2025 by Rahul Suryawanshi

Learn best practices for designing clean, consistent, and scalable REST APIs — complete with a handy REST API cheat sheet

Categories System Design & Architecture, Technology Tags API, API Design, Azure, Backend Development, Programming, REST API, Software Engineering, Technology

Why Caching Can Go Wrong

February 13, 2026April 27, 2025 by Rahul Suryawanshi

Explore why caching can go wrong in distributed systems, common pitfalls at scale, and best practices engineers should use to design reliable caching layers.

Categories System Design & Architecture, Technology Tags Cache Invalidation, Caching, Distributed Systems, Scalability, System Performance
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