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Jul 06, 2026
🌿 An access token is not proof of identity
- anti-pattern
- security
Jul 02, 2025
🌳 Idempotency is a property, not a mechanism
- pattern
Jul 01, 2025
🌿 A shared database is distributed coupling in disguise
- anti-pattern
Jun 30, 2025
🌿 Retries without backoff turn a blip into an outage
- anti-pattern
Jun 28, 2025
🌿 Onboarding a human and onboarding an AI are the same problem
Jun 26, 2025
🌿 The outbox pattern gets you at-least-once without a shared database
- pattern
Jun 24, 2025
🌿 At-least-once delivery makes deduplication your job
- pattern
Jun 20, 2025
🌿 A circuit breaker protects the caller, not the callee
- pattern
Jun 18, 2025
🌿 Cache invalidation fails at boundaries you don't own
- anti-pattern
Jun 12, 2025
🌿 A queue is a loan against future capacity
- anti-pattern
May 27, 2025
🌿 Timeouts are a design decision, not a default
- pattern

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