architecture

2 posts

• July 30, 202601

  Write to the database first, then do the clever part

  A lead form that emits an event before it stores anything is one outage away from losing the lead. The fix is a two-line reorder, and it changes what failure costs you.

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• July 29, 202602

  What a durable workflow actually buys you

  Retries are the headline feature and the least interesting one. The thing that matters is that a step which already succeeded does not run twice.

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