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Article Product Engineering ★ Featured

Progressive Delivery — Feature Flags, Canary, and Dark Launching

Techniques for releasing software confidently at any scale.

progressive delivery canary dark launch feature flags rollback
47 views May 24, 2026
Article Product Engineering ★ Featured

CI/CD Pipeline Design — From Commit to Production

Stages, gates, deployment strategies, and keeping pipelines fast.

CI/CD pipeline GitHub Actions blue-green canary
47 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform ★ Featured

Data Warehouse Modelling — Star Schema and Dimensional Design

Facts, dimensions, slowly changing dimensions, and why modelling choices matter for query performance.

data warehouse star schema dimensional modeling SCD fact table
46 views May 24, 2026
Article Product Engineering ★ Featured

Multi-Tenancy Patterns — Database-per-Tenant, Schema-per-Tenant, and Row-Level

Tradeoffs for SaaS data isolation, compliance, and operational complexity.

multi-tenancy SaaS database per tenant row-level security PostgreSQL
45 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform ★ Featured

Introduction to Data Pipelines

What a data pipeline is, the core stages, and when to build vs buy.

data pipeline ETL ELT ingest transform
46 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform ★ Featured

Apache Iceberg — The Open Table Format Explained

Snapshots, schema evolution, partition evolution, time travel, and compaction.

Apache Iceberg open table format time travel schema evolution ACID
47 views May 23, 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 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

Database Schema Migration Strategies

Expand-contract pattern, zero-downtime migrations, and tooling.

database migration expand-contract zero downtime Flyway Liquibase
44 views May 19, 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

Designing a Reliable Webhook System

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

webhooks HMAC signature verification idempotency retry
40 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 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
44 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
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Data & Platform — Service Overview

Pipelines, vector stores, governance, and privacy-first data design.

data platform pipelines vector store governance privacy
41 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Parquet vs CSV — Why Columnar Storage Matters

How Parquet's columnar format reduces storage costs and speeds up analytical queries.

Parquet CSV columnar storage compression PyArrow
47 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 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
44 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

Delta Lake — ACID Transactions for Your Data Lake

Transaction log, upserts, schema enforcement, and time travel on S3.

Delta Lake ACID upsert MERGE time travel
47 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL

Schema translation, data migration, and common incompatibilities to address.

MySQL PostgreSQL migration pgloader schema translation
46 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 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 Data & Platform

Testing Strategy for Data Pipelines

Unit tests, integration tests, data contract tests, and regression testing for pipelines.

testing data pipeline dbt unit tests integration tests
45 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Data Observability — Detecting Silent Pipeline Failures

Freshness, volume, distribution, schema, and lineage monitoring for data reliability.

data observability freshness volume distribution Monte Carlo
43 views May 23, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Getting Started with dbt (data build tool)

Models, tests, documentation, and the dbt workflow for transforming warehouse data.

dbt data build tool ELT SQL transformation
52 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 Data & Platform

Time-Series Databases — InfluxDB vs TimescaleDB vs ClickHouse

Comparing purpose-built and general-purpose solutions for time-series data.

time-series InfluxDB TimescaleDB ClickHouse metrics
40 views May 21, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Airflow Best Practices for Production Pipelines

Idempotency, backfilling, SLA misses, and common pitfalls to avoid.

Airflow best practices idempotency backfill SLA
46 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 Data & Platform

Data Lake vs Data Warehouse vs Lakehouse

Practical comparison of the three architectures and how to choose.

data lake data warehouse lakehouse Delta Lake Iceberg
48 views May 20, 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 Data & Platform

MongoDB Schema Design Patterns

Embedding vs referencing, the subset pattern, and indexing strategy.

MongoDB schema design embedding referencing bucket pattern
42 views May 20, 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

Event Sourcing and CQRS — Practical Implementation

Event store design, projection rebuilding, and operational realities.

event sourcing CQRS event store projection snapshot
43 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