#system-design

Cloud & Infrastructure

Distributed Transactions: Why 2PC Still Haunts Your Microservices (and Sagas Won't Fully Save You)

You've built microservices. Great. Now watch distributed transactions turn your system into a locked-up mess. 2PC promises ACID; Sagas promise availability. Both lie a little.

Frontend & Web

Message Queues in System Design: Kafka's Dominance Hides the Real Tradeoffs

I've watched message queues evolve from clunky email backlogs to billion-dollar streaming empires. But in system design, are Kafka, RabbitMQ, and SQS solving problems or just piling on ops nightmares?