Today we’ll talk about another Design Pattern: the Singleton. I’m pretty much sure everyone knows what I am talking about, but just to be sure, let’s do a quick recap. The Singleton pattern guarantees that there is only one instance of a class throughout the application. This can be beneficial...
2023, May 29 — 5 minute read
Wow, almost 2 months since my last post. I’m really starting to fall behind. And honestly, it would probably have taken even more, if it wasn’t for one of my connections on Linkedin. A few days ago, I got a message from one of my contacts. They wanted a piece...
2023, Feb 16 — 2 minute read
Hi All! Today I want to expand a bit the concept we discussed last time, and talk about Compensating Transactions. In simple terms, a Compensating transaction it’s all about reversing the effects of a previous transaction. This is often used in cases where a previous transaction was made in error,...
2022, Dec 11 — 3 minute read
Hi All! Today we’re going to talk about at quite important topic: consistency, specifically in distributed systems. As a software engineer, one of the key challenges we face when designing distributed systems is ensuring data consistency across multiple services. In an event-driven architecture, this often involves publishing and subscribing to...
2022, Dec 08 — 4 minute read