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Sidecar Pattern in Microservices

• Vipul Kumar
• System design , Microservices , Sidecar pattern

🔄 Definition — Event sourcing is a pattern where the state of a business entity is stored as a sequence of events, rather than just the current state.

Event Sourcing in Microservices

• Vipul Kumar
• Microservices , Distributed transaction , Event sourcing

🔄 Definition — Event sourcing is a pattern where the state of a business entity is stored as a sequence of events, rather than just the current state.

Understanding Two-Phase Commit in Microservices

• Vipul Kumar
• Microservices , Distributed transaction , Two phase commit

🔄 Protocol Overview — The Two-Phase Commit (2PC) protocol is a distributed algorithm used to ensure that a transaction is either committed or aborted across all participating nodes in a distributed system.

Understanding the CQRS Pattern

• Vipul Kumar
• Microservices , Distributed transaction , Cqrs

Understanding the CQRS Pattern

🔄 Definition — CQRS stands for Command Query Responsibility Segregation, a pattern that separates the responsibilities of handling commands (write operations) and queries (read operations) in a software system.

Understanding the Saga Pattern in Microservices

• Vipul Kumar
• Distributed transaction , Microservices

🔄 Definition — The Saga pattern is a design pattern used to manage distributed transactions in microservices by breaking them into a series of smaller, local transactions.

Managing Transactions in Microservices

• Vipul Kumar
• Microservices , Distributed transaction

🔄 Distributed Transactions — Managing transactions in microservices often involves distributed transactions, which can be complex due to the need to maintain consistency across multiple services.

Implementing the Retry Pattern in Microservices

• Vipul Kumar
• Retry pattern , Microservices

🔄 Definition — The Retry Pattern is a design strategy used in microservices to handle transient failures by automatically retrying failed requests.

Understanding Database Sharding

• Vipul Kumar
• Database sharding , Scalability

Understanding Database Sharding

🔍 Definition — Database sharding is a method of distributing a large database across multiple machines to improve performance and scalability.

Implementing JWT for Secure API Communication

• Vipul Kumar
• Microservices , Rate limiting

🔐 API Security Importance — API security is crucial due to the increasing number of APIs and their exposure as attack vectors. APIs are often publicly exposed, making them attractive targets for cyberattacks.

Role of API Gateways in Microservices Architecture

• Vipul Kumar
• Microservices , Rate limiting

🔗 Centralized Entry Point — API gateways serve as a centralized entry point for all client requests in a microservices architecture, managing and routing these requests to the appropriate microservice.