Engineering Guidelines for Scalability and Performance

Distributed Systems Series — Part 5.12: Scalability & Performance The End of the Beginning This is the forty-third and final post in a series that began with a simple question: what does it mean to build distributed systems correctly? Not just systems that work in development, not just systems that pass their tests, but systems … Read more

Distributed Systems Engineering Guidelines: Replication, Consistency & Consensus

Engineering guidelines for replication, consistency, and consensus in distributed systems — with a complete design review checklist covering failure design, consistency model selection, replication configuration, consensus placement, performance, and observability.