Exponential backoff spreads a single client’s retries over time and does nothing about a thousand clients retrying in lockstep after one outage. The recovering-service failure is the one…
A load balancer, an orchestrator and a monitoring system each want a health endpoint, and two services answering differently is two integrations. Excluding third-party dependencies is the rule…
A published message has consumers you do not control, and its shape is a contract whether or not anybody wrote one down. Publishing both versions during a transition…
A third-party model that leaks into your domain spreads their vocabulary through your code, and the translation belongs in one place. The value shows up at the provider…
The server cannot tell two identical requests apart from one request sent twice, because the payload is the same either way — only the client knows which it…