#distributed-systems
// 4 transmissions tagged with #distributed-systems
Outbox relay lease expiry without breaking delivery invariants
A new lease‑and‑fencing‑token design lets an outbox relay expire without violating the guarantee that every committed event is offered at least once, even when duplicate broker messages occur.
Testing saga compensation with an in-memory simulator
Robin Zzz’s in-memory simulator injects five failure modes—duplicate delivery, timeout, late success, refund failure, and process restart—to verify that saga compensation stays idempotent and that reconciliation can be repeated safely.
CAP theorem guide published
Abdullah Bajwa's 2,500-word guide to the CAP theorem on dev.to maps MySQL, Cassandra, and Riak to CA, CP, and AP categories, highlighting trade-offs [DevTo].
Ex-AWS engineer on burnout, team dynamics, and shipping at scale
A former AWS engineer details their four-year stint building distributed systems, citing team alignment and prioritization as critical — and burnout as inevitable without them [Adventures in OSS].