Resilience4j Patterns for Java Microservices
How to combine timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and rate limiters in Java services without creating retry storms.
Amit Kumar Singh2 min read
#reliability
9 articlesEverything tagged reliability, newest first.
Preventing Queue Backlogs in Production
How to keep queues from turning traffic spikes into long outages using limits, DLQs, backpressure, and load shedding.
Amit Kumar Singh2 min read
Feature Flags Without the Tech Debt
Rolling out safely with flags — and remembering to delete them.
Amit Kumar Singh2 min read
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Designing Idempotent APIs That Survive Retries
Networks fail, clients retry, and duplicate requests happen. Here's how to design write endpoints that produce the same result no matter how many times they're called.
Amit Kumar Singh3 min read
Idempotency Keys Beyond Payments
Where else exactly-once thinking saves you from duplicate side effects.
Amit Kumar Singh2 min read
Designing for Retries
Timeouts, jitter, and budgets that keep retries from making things worse.
Amit Kumar Singh2 min read
Kubernetes Probes Done Right
Liveness vs readiness vs startup — and the outages from getting them wrong.
Amit Kumar Singh2 min read
The Outbox Pattern, Step by Step
Reliably publishing events alongside your database writes.
Amit Kumar Singh2 min read
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Zero-Downtime Deployments Without the Magic
Rolling updates, health checks, and backward-compatible migrations — the unglamorous mechanics of shipping without taking the site down.
Amit Kumar Singh2 min read