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Article Product Engineering ★ Featured

Resilience Patterns — Circuit Breaker, Retry, Bulkhead, and Timeout

Prevent cascading failures with proven resilience patterns.

circuit breaker retry bulkhead timeout resilience
46 views May 24, 2026
Project Projects & Case Studies ★ Featured

Diagnostic RAG for heavy equipment

Indexed 4M+ pages across PDFs & manuals; latency < 400ms; 32% fewer escalations.

RAG heavy equipment PDF Claude retrieval
42 views May 24, 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
48 views May 24, 2026
Service Service Descriptions ★ Featured

Applied AI & ML — Service Overview

Everything included in our Applied AI engagements: RAG, agents, fine-tuning, evals, and guardrails.

Applied AI RAG agents fine-tuning evals
52 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 24, 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
51 views May 24, 2026
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
45 views May 20, 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
44 views May 19, 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
46 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
47 views May 25, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Service Mesh — Istio and Linkerd for Microservices

mTLS, traffic management, observability, and the operational cost of a service mesh.

service mesh Istio Linkerd mTLS sidecar
44 views May 25, 2026
Article Computer Repair

No Sound in Windows — Complete Fix Guide

Systematic audio troubleshooting from service restart to driver reinstall.

no sound audio Realtek driver Volume Mixer
50 views May 25, 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
38 views May 25, 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
44 views May 25, 2026
Article Computer Repair

Fix Slow Windows 10/11 Startup

Step-by-step methods to cut boot time from minutes to seconds.

slow boot startup performance SSD Windows 10
44 views May 24, 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
48 views May 24, 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
48 views May 24, 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
43 views May 24, 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 24, 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
45 views May 24, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Our observability stack for production services

Logs, metrics, traces — how we instrument every service we ship.

observability logging metrics traces OpenTelemetry
42 views May 24, 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
46 views May 24, 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
33 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
46 views May 24, 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 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

MongoDB Schema Design Patterns

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

MongoDB schema design embedding referencing bucket pattern
44 views May 24, 2026
Article Computer Repair

Fix 100% CPU Usage in Windows

Identify what is consuming CPU and permanently resolve the issue.

CPU usage 100% CPU performance WMI Windows Defender
44 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
49 views May 24, 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
42 views May 24, 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 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 23, 2026
Service Service Descriptions

Data & Platform — Service Overview

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

data platform pipelines vector store governance privacy
41 views May 23, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Kubernetes Deployment Patterns for Production Services

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

Kubernetes K8s Deployment HPA readiness probe
46 views May 21, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Background Job Queue Design

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

background jobs queue idempotency DLQ retry
45 views May 20, 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
49 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

Designing a Reliable Webhook System

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

webhooks HMAC signature verification idempotency retry
36 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

Distributed Tracing — Propagating Context Across Services

Trace context propagation, sampling strategies, and analysing traces.

distributed tracing OpenTelemetry trace context sampling Jaeger
48 views May 19, 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
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
34 views May 19, 2026