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Choosing the Right Data Store: A Quick Dive into 4 Core Models
In today’s data-driven retail environment, choosing the right data format is crucial for effective business operations. Different formats serve various purposes, from transaction processing to analytics and customer relationship management. This article examines the most common store data formats, their strengths and weaknesses, and practical examples of their implementation. 1. Relational Databases Relational databases use…
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GraphQL: A Modern Approach to APIs
GraphQL is a query language for APIs that provides a flexible and efficient way to fetch data compared to traditional REST APIs. Developed by Facebook in 2012 and open-sourced in 2015, GraphQL is a powerful query language and runtime for APIs, developed by Facebook in 2012 and open-sourced in 2015. It emerged as a response…
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gRPC Remote Procedure Calls
gRPC is basically Google’s way of making service-to-service communication super fast and efficient. It’s an open-source RPC framework built for speed, scalability, and flexibility, and it works across multiple programming languages—so you’re not stuck with just one tech stack. If you’re dealing with microservices, cloud apps, or real-time systems, gRPC is a solid choice. It’s…
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Fault Tolerance Strategies 2
This article is the second installment in our exploration of the Resilience4j library and its algorithms. Resilience algorithms play a crucial role in enhancing the robustness of applications by preventing failures, handling transient issues, and maintaining system stability. These algorithms, such as Circuit Breaker, Rate Limiter, Bulkhead, and Retry, help mitigate risks associated with network…
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Fault Tolerance Strategies 1
A service can fail for numerous reasons, often categorized into infrastructure issues, application-level failures, and external dependencies. By implementing resilience patterns, organizations can mitigate infrastructure failures, application-level issues, and external dependency failures, ensuring stability, fault tolerance, and high availability in modern distributed systems. These patterns are essential for cloud-native architectures, microservices, and high-scale applications. A…