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EP163: 12 MCP Servers You Can Use in 2025
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that simplifies how AI models, particularly LLMs, interact with external data sources, tools, and…
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Engineering Trade-offs: Eventual Consistency in Practice
Modern applications don’t run on a single database or monolithic backend anymore. They run on event-driven, distributed systems.
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How Slack Supports Billions of Daily Messages
At peak weekday hours, Slack maintains over five million simultaneous WebSocket sessions. That’s not just a metric, but a serious architectural…
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EP162: 9 Clean Code Principles To Keep In Mind
Meaningful Names: Name variables and functions to reveal their purpose, not just their value.
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Messaging Patterns Explained: Pub-Sub, Queues, and Event Streams
What happens when the downstream service is overloaded? Or slow? Or down entirely?
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How Halo on Xbox Scaled to 10+ Million Players using the Saga Pattern
One powerful pattern for solving this problem is the Saga Pattern, a technique originally proposed in the late 1980s but increasingly relevant today.
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How Canva Collects 25 Billion Events a Day
This article walks through how Canva structures, collects, and distributes billions of events daily, without drowning in tech debt and increasing cloud…
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