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Cloud Bits: Bulkhead Pattern – Isolate Failures and Sinkproof Your Services

varunu28
June 19, 2026

Modern microservices have various integration points in form of external APIs, databases etc. In order to perform these integrations the…

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Cloud Bits: Dancing Through Failures – Saga Pattern for Resilient Microservices

varunu28
June 2, 2026

In any software application we generally require talking to multiple microservices to achieve a single business outcome. An example of…

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Cloud Bits: Breaking the Double Write – A Guide to Distributed Data Consistency

varunu28
May 2, 2026

Once you start dealing with cloud systems, you need to grapple with the reality that failure is a question of…

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Cloud Bits: Bounded by contract

varunu28
January 25, 2026

In the last post, we saw how deep-checks & health-checks can prevent your application from failing due to a bad…

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Cloud Bits: Beyond Pings – Checks for Cloud-Native Reliability

varunu28
December 25, 2025

Understanding the problem In a cloud-native environment where your application is powered by multiple services with a complex dependency graph,…

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Thundering Herd Problem: Preventing the Stampede

varunu28
August 24, 2025

Couple of years back I wrote a post describing the thundering herd problem. Now that I look back, I had…

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Cloud Bits: Circuit Breakers – The First Line of Defense in Cloud-Native Resilience

varunu28
August 12, 2025

What are we solving? When you are working in a cloud-native environment, you cannot continue making the assumptions that you…

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Cloud Bits: API Gateways – Cloud System’s Reception Desk

varunu28
June 12, 2025

API gateways are probably one of the first few keywords you hear when you enter the world of cloud computing.…

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Cloud Bits: The Compass of Microservices- Navigating Service Discovery

varunu28
May 3, 2025

Continuing from our previous cloud bits post about service configuration, we will explore the topic of service discovery in this…

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Cloud Bits: Decouple Configuration from Code

varunu28
March 8, 2025

Today most of the application software we develop ends up getting deployed to the cloud & along with it comes…