I’m Avik (pronounced Oveek)—a passionate developer, cloud infrastructure engineer, and an avid
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How frequently during code review do we get review comments asking for refactoring a few lines that seem very obvious to the author? I got similar review comments multiple times. Sometimes it is hard to back those review comments with a strong reason but flagged as a readability concern. But why?
Continue ReadingIn the cloud and edge computing era, we can argue that a microservice ecosystem is nothing but a distributed system on steroids. Unlike a traditional centralized system, A distributed system is inherently prone to failure. So resiliency is the key factor to consider while architecting a highly available modern microservice architecture on top of inherently unreliable commodity cloud infrastructure. In this write-up, I am going to discuss some fundamental notions of resiliency and its possible application in system design.
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