Architecture Patterns
The Trouble with Distributed Systems
Distributed systems are fundamentally unreliable - networks lose packets, clocks drift, processes pause - and building correct systems means designing around these harsh realities.
CAP TheoremConsistency (Strong, Eventual)AvailabilityPartition ToleranceDistributed Consensus (Paxos, Raft)Horizontal ScalingFault ToleranceMicroservicesMessage Queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ)Distributed Tracing (Jaeger, Zipkin)
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