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System DesignCircuit Breaker: when should you stop trying?How the Circuit Breaker stops calls to services that are already failing, its closed, open and half-open states, and how to combine it with retry.Aug 5, 2026 · 5 min readSystem Design
System DesignExponential Backoff in PracticeIn this article we will understand how Exponential Backoff works in practice, and how it can be used to reduce the pressure on degraded services.Aug 1, 2026 · 5 min readSystem Design
System DesignWhy can retries bring down your system?When retries help and when they make an outage worse: transient and permanent failures, how many attempts to make, limits and idempotency.Jul 28, 2026 · 4 min readSystem Design
System DesignLatency vs ThroughputWhat latency and throughput are, two core system design metrics, and how they relate to each other when you evaluate the performance of a system.Dec 1, 2025 · 2 min readSystem Design
System DesignScalability and PerformancePerformance is how fast a system works with fixed resources. Scalability is handling more load by adding resources. Understand the difference.Nov 26, 2025 · 2 min readFollow upcoming posts
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