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Async Systems & APIs

Queues, real-time protocols, service boundaries, and keeping it all observable.

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  1. Message Queues & Streaming (Kafka)Buffering bursts and replaying from offsets.Animation · 10 minNot completed
  2. Pub/Sub Fan-OutOne event, many listeners — and why persistence matters.Animation · 9 minNot completed
  3. Rate LimitingToken buckets and graceful 429s.Animation · 9 minNot completed
  4. API Styles: REST, gRPC, WebSockets, SSEChoosing the right conversation shape between client and server.Animation · 10 minNot completed
  5. Microservices vs MonolithIndependent scaling, at the price of network failures.Animation · 10 minNot completed
  6. Observability & Fault ToleranceTraces, alerts, circuit breakers, and degrading gracefully.Animation · 10 minNot completed
  7. Async & APIs CheckpointQueue vs pub/sub, protocol selection, rate-limit algorithms, and failure-isolation patterns.Checkpoint · 9 minNot completed