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System Design: Building a Service Discovery Platform

In a distributed system, naming a service is easy. Finding a healthy instance of that service, right now, in the right zone, during a deployment, while failures are happening, is the real problem. That problem is service…

Apr 18, 202610 min read

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System Design: Building a Distributed Configuration Platform

Most systems begin with configuration as a file. That works for a while. Then one service needs a database URL rotation without redeploy. Another wants per-environment rate limits. A third wants tenant-specific limits. A…

Apr 10, 202611 min read

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