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Article Product Engineering ★ Featured

Secure Coding — OWASP Top 10 for Backend Engineers

Injection, broken auth, XSS, IDOR, and how to prevent each.

OWASP security SQL injection XSS IDOR
51 views May 24, 2026
Article Product Engineering ★ Featured

REST API design principles we follow

Versioning, error formats, pagination, and auth patterns used across all Intersysop-built APIs.

API REST versioning auth JWT
44 views May 22, 2026
Article Product Engineering ★ Featured

Observability — Logs, Metrics, and Traces

Implementing the three pillars with OpenTelemetry and making them actionable.

observability OpenTelemetry logging metrics tracing
46 views May 21, 2026
Article Data & Platform ★ Featured

Choosing a vector database: pgvector vs Pinecone vs Weaviate

A practical comparison across dimensions that matter for production RAG systems.

vector database pgvector Pinecone Weaviate embeddings
49 views May 21, 2026
Article Data & Platform ★ Featured

Privacy-First Data Design — PII Handling Patterns

Tokenisation, pseudonymisation, encryption at rest, and right-to-deletion workflows.

PII privacy GDPR pseudonymisation tokenisation
48 views May 19, 2026
Article Product Engineering ★ Featured

REST API Versioning Strategies

URL path, header, and query-param versioning compared with real-world tradeoffs.

API versioning REST URL versioning header versioning deprecation
50 views May 19, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Kubernetes Deployment Patterns for Production Services

Deployments, Services, Ingress, HPA, and resource management.

Kubernetes K8s Deployment HPA readiness probe
47 views May 24, 2026
Article Product Engineering

API Error Handling — Consistent Error Responses

Error format standards, HTTP status code usage, and client-friendly error design.

API error handling HTTP status codes error format validation
36 views May 24, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Semantic Versioning — MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH in Practice

When to bump each version number and how to communicate breaking changes.

semantic versioning semver breaking changes API versioning changelog
44 views May 24, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Load Testing with k6

Script a realistic load test, interpret results, and find bottlenecks before they find users.

k6 load testing performance P95 P99
45 views May 24, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Idiomatic REST API Design Patterns

Naming conventions, filtering, sorting, sparse fieldsets, and HATEOAS considerations.

REST API design naming conventions filtering sorting
47 views May 24, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Serverless Architecture — When Functions Work and When They Don't

Cold starts, event-driven patterns, cost model, and the right use cases.

serverless AWS Lambda cold start event-driven FaaS
46 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Infrastructure as Code for Data Platforms with Terraform

Managing cloud data infrastructure reproducibly with Terraform.

Terraform IaC infrastructure as code AWS S3
44 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Feature Stores — Bridging Data Engineering and ML

What a feature store is, online vs offline stores, and when to build vs buy.

feature store ML platform Feast training-serving skew online store
45 views May 24, 2026
Article Product Engineering

API Documentation Best Practices

What makes documentation useful, tooling, and keeping docs accurate.

API documentation OpenAPI Redoc Swagger developer experience
43 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Implementing Data Lineage Tracking

Column-level lineage, tools, and why it is critical for debugging and compliance.

data lineage OpenLineage DataHub dbt column lineage
48 views May 24, 2026
Article Product Engineering

OpenAPI Spec-First API Development

Write the contract before writing code — benefits, tooling, and workflow.

OpenAPI Swagger spec-first API design Spectral
49 views May 24, 2026
Article Product Engineering

CDN and Edge Caching Strategy

Origin offload, cache key design, purging, and choosing a CDN.

CDN edge caching cache key purging Cloudflare
44 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Elasticsearch Indexing Strategy and Performance

Mapping, sharding, bulk indexing, and query optimization for Elasticsearch.

Elasticsearch indexing mapping shards bulk
45 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Orchestrating Pipelines with Apache Airflow

DAGs, operators, scheduling, and production best practices for Airflow.

Airflow orchestration DAG scheduling pipeline
45 views May 24, 2026
Article Product Engineering

GraphQL vs REST — When to Use Each

Comparing query flexibility, over-fetching, tooling, and operational complexity.

GraphQL REST API design DataLoader N+1
51 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Apache Spark — Core Concepts and When to Use It

RDDs, DataFrames, Spark SQL, and the use cases where Spark is the right tool.

Spark Apache Spark DataFrames distributed compute Spark SQL
44 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Amazon Redshift — Architecture and Query Optimization

Distribution styles, sort keys, VACUUM, ANALYZE, and WLM tuning.

Redshift AWS distribution key sort key VACUUM
51 views May 24, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Background Job Queue Design

Idempotency, retries, dead letter queues, and job observability.

background jobs queue idempotency DLQ retry
46 views May 24, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Distributed Tracing — Propagating Context Across Services

Trace context propagation, sampling strategies, and analysing traces.

distributed tracing OpenTelemetry trace context sampling Jaeger
50 views May 23, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Running Data Workloads on Kubernetes

Spark on K8s, Airflow on K8s, resource requests, and storage patterns.

Kubernetes K8s Spark Airflow KubernetesExecutor
48 views May 23, 2026
Article Product Engineering

API Gateway — Responsibilities and Implementation Patterns

Authentication, rate limiting, routing, request aggregation, and when not to use a gateway.

API gateway Kong AWS API Gateway BFF rate limiting
48 views May 23, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Container Registry Management and Image Lifecycle

Tagging conventions, vulnerability scanning, retention policies, and registry options.

Docker container registry ECR Harbor image tagging
45 views May 22, 2026
Article Product Engineering

API Pagination — Cursor, Offset, and Keyset Patterns

When each method works, performance tradeoffs, and implementation details.

pagination cursor offset keyset API design
44 views May 22, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Implementing Rate Limiting in APIs

Token bucket, sliding window, fixed window — algorithms and implementation patterns.

rate limiting token bucket sliding window Redis API
38 views May 22, 2026
Service Service Descriptions

Product Engineering — Service Overview

APIs, dashboards, and services delivered with tests, CI/CD, and observability from day one.

product engineering API dashboard CI/CD React
47 views May 21, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Designing a Data Lake on AWS S3

Folder structure, naming conventions, lifecycle policies, and access patterns.

S3 data lake AWS partitioning lifecycle
40 views May 21, 2026
Article Product Engineering

HTTP Caching Strategies for APIs and Web Applications

Cache-Control headers, ETags, CDN caching, and cache invalidation.

HTTP caching Cache-Control ETag CDN stale-while-revalidate
31 views May 20, 2026
Article Product Engineering

API Testing Strategy — Unit, Integration, Contract, and E2E

Building a test pyramid that catches real bugs without slowing delivery.

API testing unit tests integration tests contract testing Pact
44 views May 20, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Extracting Microservices from a Monolith

The strangler fig pattern, identifying seams, and avoiding the distributed monolith.

microservices monolith strangler fig distributed system architecture
43 views May 19, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Message Queue Patterns — SQS, RabbitMQ, and Dead Letter Queues

Fan-out, work queues, priority queues, and poison message handling.

message queue SQS RabbitMQ DLQ fan-out
51 views May 19, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Data Mesh — Principles and Practical Implementation

Domain ownership, data products, self-serve infrastructure, and federated governance.

data mesh domain ownership data product self-serve governance
48 views May 19, 2026
Article Product Engineering

OAuth 2.0 and OIDC — Implementing Secure Third-Party Auth

Authorization code flow, PKCE, scopes, and integrating with identity providers.

OAuth 2.0 OIDC PKCE authorization code Auth0
41 views May 19, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Secrets Management for Data Platforms

HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, and patterns for rotating credentials safely.

secrets management Vault AWS Secrets Manager credentials rotation
42 views May 19, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Designing and Publishing API Client SDKs

Auto-generation vs handwritten, retry logic, versioning, and developer experience.

SDK API client openapi-generator retry developer experience
41 views May 19, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Logging Best Practices for Production Services

Structured logging, log levels, correlation IDs, and log aggregation.

logging structured logs correlation ID log levels Loki
47 views May 19, 2026
Article Product Engineering

gRPC Service Design — Protocol Buffers and Production Patterns

Proto file design, streaming, deadlines, interceptors, and error handling.

gRPC Protocol Buffers proto3 streaming interceptors
44 views May 19, 2026
Article Product Engineering

API Idempotency — Safe Retries for Mutations

Idempotency keys, implementation, and which HTTP methods are idempotent by definition.

idempotency API Idempotency-Key POST retries
35 views May 18, 2026