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BackendArquitetura•4 min

Measuring and Reducing Serialization Overhead in High-Throughput Protocols

Learn how data serialization impacts throughput and latency in distributed systems and discover practical strategies to optimize communication protocols.

BackendArquitetura•4 min

Designing Messaging Topologies Based on Event Sourcing with Polyglot Projections

Learn how to structure event-driven architectures using Event Sourcing and polyglot projections to build highly scalable, resilient, and decoupled distributed systems.

BackendArquitetura•5 min

Implementing Resilience in Distributed Databases with Conflict Resolution via CRDTs

Learn how to keep distributed systems consistent and resilient without global locks by using conflict-free replicated data types in practice.

IABackend•6 min

Building Autonomous Agent Pipelines with Epistemic Memory and Real-Time Vector Retrieval

Learn how to architect autonomous AI systems by combining structured knowledge memory and real-time vector search for consistent decision-making.

BackendArquitetura•3 min

Migrating Monolithic Legacy Systems to Event Driven Architectures Without Downtime

Learn how to migrate legacy monolithic systems to event-driven microservices using the Strangler Fig pattern and CDC, ensuring zero business downtime.

BackendArquitetura•4 min

Resilient Microservices Design with Adaptive Circuit Breakers and Distributed Rate Limiting

Learn how to build fault-tolerant distributed systems by combining adaptive software circuit breakers with real-time rate limiting.

IABackend•4 min

RAG Inference Systems: Hybrid Search and Large-Scale Re-rankers

Learn how to build efficient vector search architectures using hybrid retrieval and re-rankers to scale massive volumes of textual data.

BackendArquitetura•4 min

Implementing Distributed Cache Policies with Database Event-Driven Invalidation

Learn how to keep data fast and up to date in scalable systems by using database events to invalidate distributed caches efficiently.

BackendArquitetura•4 min

High Availability Architecture with Paxos-Based Multi-Master Replication

Learn how to design resilient distributed systems using Paxos consensus without global locks, ensuring low latency and strong consistency.

BackendArquitetura•5 min

Transactional Patterns Implementation with Outbox Pattern and Debezium in High-Throughput Microservices

Learn how to ensure data consistency in high-throughput microservices by combining the Outbox Pattern and Debezium for database log reading without message loss.