Global Payment Gateway (2/4): Distributed Transactions & The Saga Pattern
Why Two-Phase Commit (2PC) fails at scale, and how to architect the Saga Pattern and Transactional Outbox to guarantee data consistency across microservices.
Distributed-Systems
Global Payment Gateway (1/4): The Idempotent Payment API
Exactly-once delivery is an illusion in distributed networks. In this post, we architect an Idempotent Payment API to guarantee financial correctness amidst network timeouts, race conditions, and retry storms.
Stock Exchange Core (4/4): Trade-offs, Scaling Limits & Alternative Architectures
When does the LMAX Disruptor fail? We explore the CAP theorem, quantify the brutal costs of Kernel Bypass, and provide a strict decision framework for system design.
Stock Exchange Core (3/4): High Availability & Deterministic Fault Tolerance
How to survive hardware crashes without a database. We explore Event Sourcing, the Sequencer pattern, and UDP Multicast to achieve 99.999% uptime in a single-threaded architecture.
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