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Article Product Engineering ★ Featured

Observability — Logs, Metrics, and Traces

Implementing the three pillars with OpenTelemetry and making them actionable.

observability OpenTelemetry logging metrics tracing
3 views Mar 30, 2026
Article Data & Platform ★ Featured

Apache Kafka — Core Concepts and When to Use It

Topics, partitions, consumer groups, and the use cases where Kafka excels.

Kafka streaming event log topics partitions
2 views Mar 30, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Change Data Capture (CDC) — Debezium and Log-Based CDC

How CDC works, why it beats polling, and how to implement it with Debezium.

CDC change data capture Debezium Kafka WAL
3 views Mar 30, 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
3 views Mar 30, 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
3 views Mar 30, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Event-Driven Data Architecture Patterns

Event sourcing, CQRS, outbox pattern, and when event-driven beats request/response.

event sourcing CQRS outbox pattern event-driven Kafka
3 views Mar 30, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Monitoring and Alerting for Data Pipelines

What to monitor, SLIs/SLOs for data, and building effective alerting.

monitoring alerting SLI SLO Prometheus
3 views Mar 30, 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
3 views Mar 30, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Building a Data Catalog with DataHub

Ingestion, metadata, search, and making your catalog actually useful.

DataHub data catalog metadata lineage discoverability
3 views Mar 30, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Data Contracts — Formalising Agreements Between Producers and Consumers

Schema, SLAs, semantics, and how to enforce data contracts in practice.

data contracts ODCS schema SLA producer
2 views Mar 30, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Microservices Communication — Sync vs Async Patterns

REST, gRPC, message queues, and choosing the right pattern for each interaction.

microservices gRPC REST message queue Kafka
2 views Mar 30, 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
2 views Mar 30, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Schema Registry and Avro for Kafka Data Contracts

Why schema management matters for streaming pipelines and how to implement it.

Avro Schema Registry Kafka data contracts schema evolution
2 views Mar 30, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Designing a Reliable Webhook System

Delivery guarantees, signature verification, retry logic, and consumer best practices.

webhooks HMAC signature verification idempotency retry
2 views Mar 30, 2026