Tag: event-driven architecture
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Reactive Systems: Scaling Beyond Microservices or The Next Hype Cycle?
THE WEEKLY RADAR The Context Over the past week, “Reactive Systems” has surged in prominence as teams attempt to wring more throughput and resilience from distributed architectures. Rooted in the Reactive Manifesto, these systems promise asynchronous message flows, backpressure handling and fault isolation—addressing key microservices limitations around synchronous RPC and cascading failures. Blog series like…
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Bridging the Consistency Chasm: Mastering Data in Microservices
THE WEEKLY RADAR The Context In the drive toward distributed, scalable architectures, data consistency has become the primary pain point for engineering teams. Without a monolithic database to guarantee ACID transactions, services must coordinate state changes across network boundaries—introducing complexity, latency, and the risk of partial failures. Recent surveys and post-mortems underscore that improper handling…