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System Design: Building a Workflow Orchestration Platform

Many backend processes start life as a queue consumer and a couple of retries. That works until the business process gets longer and stranger. Now the flow needs: - wait for payment confirmation - call three downstream s…

Apr 18, 202612 min read

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System Design: Building an Email Delivery Platform

Sending one email is easy. Sending millions of emails reliably, legally, and without damaging your domain reputation is a system design problem. Email delivery touches product workflows, background jobs, third-party prov…

Apr 8, 202610 min read

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System Design: Building a Distributed Job Scheduler

A job scheduler sounds simple: run this task at this time. In production, that becomes a distributed systems problem. Nodes crash after claiming work. Clocks drift. Jobs overlap. Cron expressions are ambiguous. Tenants n…

Apr 8, 202611 min read

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#system design#job scheduler#distributed systems