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The Developer's Guide to Timeouts
Most HTTP clients ship with no timeout at all. How to set connect, read and database timeouts that fail fast instead of hanging forever.
Gareth Clubb 6 min read Search articles
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Gareth Clubb 6 min read Tools & Tech
Python 3.15: What's New and How to Prepare
Python 3.15 lands on 1 October 2026 with lazy imports, UTF-8 by default, the Tachyon profiler and a faster JIT. What changed and what to test before RC1.
Zubair Hasan 7 min read Backend
How to Design Webhooks That Don't Lose Events
Webhook design guide: at-least-once delivery, retries with backoff, idempotent consumers, HMAC signatures, and why you should never trust event order.
David White 6 min read Architecture
The Strangler Fig Pattern: Replacing a Legacy System Without a Rewrite
The strangler fig pattern explained: replace a legacy system incrementally with a routing facade, parallel runs, and a ratchet, no big-bang rewrite needed.
Jonny Rowse 8 min read Architecture
The Saga Pattern: Managing Distributed Transactions Without Two-Phase Commit
A practical guide to the saga pattern: choreography vs orchestration, compensating transactions, and how to keep distributed workflows consistent without 2PC.
Gareth Clubb 9 min read DevOps
Managing Environment Variables and Secrets in CI/CD Pipelines
How to manage environment variables and secrets in CI/CD pipelines safely: scoping, masking, OIDC, rotation, and the mistakes that leak credentials.
Zubair Hasan 9 min read DevOps
What Is a CI Build? Continuous Integration Explained Step by Step
What a CI build actually is: triggers, stages, caching and artefacts explained, and how continuous integration keeps your main branch releasable.
David White 6 min read Backend
Caching Patterns Explained: A Practical Catalogue with Code Examples
A working catalogue of caching patterns and mechanisms with code examples: cache-aside, read-through, write-through, write-behind, refresh-ahead and more.
Gareth Clubb 8 min read Architecture
The Transactional Outbox Pattern: Reliable Event Publishing Explained
A practical guide to the transactional outbox pattern: how to publish events reliably from a database write, avoid dual-write bugs, and handle replay.
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