Everything but Programming

Distributed systems bring with them a lot of new challenges that aren't present in more monolithic setups as well as amplifying certain concerns that are present to both.

This session will be devoted to talking about the common patterns for dealing with those challenges/concerns, primarily from the perspective of the service/application level.

Here are some topics we might cover

• Transactional Outbox, Saga
• Backpressure, Retries, Retry Storms, Exponential Backoff, Jitter, Retry Budget, Bounded Retries, Circuit Breaker, Retry Circuit Breaker, Deadline Propagation, Additive Increase and Multiplicative Decrease, Load Shedding
• Timeouts, Cancellation, Keep-Alives
• Idempotency, Re-entrancy, At least once delivery
• Cache Stampede, Thundering Herd
• Temporal, Dapr