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41 resultsCI/CD Pipeline Design — From Commit to Production
Stages, gates, deployment strategies, and keeping pipelines fast.
Resilience Patterns — Circuit Breaker, Retry, Bulkhead, and Timeout
Prevent cascading failures with proven resilience patterns.
Privacy-First Data Design — PII Handling Patterns
Tokenisation, pseudonymisation, encryption at rest, and right-to-deletion workflows.
Applied AI & ML — Service Overview
Everything included in our Applied AI engagements: RAG, agents, fine-tuning, evals, and guardrails.
Observability — Logs, Metrics, and Traces
Implementing the three pillars with OpenTelemetry and making them actionable.
Diagnostic RAG for heavy equipment
Indexed 4M+ pages across PDFs & manuals; latency < 400ms; 32% fewer escalations.
Progressive Delivery — Feature Flags, Canary, and Dark Launching
Techniques for releasing software confidently at any scale.
Data Warehouse Modelling — Star Schema and Dimensional Design
Facts, dimensions, slowly changing dimensions, and why modelling choices matter for query performance.
REST API design principles we follow
Versioning, error formats, pagination, and auth patterns used across all Intersysop-built APIs.
Fix Slow Windows 10/11 Startup
Step-by-step methods to cut boot time from minutes to seconds.
CDN and Edge Caching Strategy
Origin offload, cache key design, purging, and choosing a CDN.
Event Sourcing and CQRS — Practical Implementation
Event store design, projection rebuilding, and operational realities.
gRPC Service Design — Protocol Buffers and Production Patterns
Proto file design, streaming, deadlines, interceptors, and error handling.
Schema Registry and Avro for Kafka Data Contracts
Why schema management matters for streaming pipelines and how to implement it.
Service Mesh — Istio and Linkerd for Microservices
mTLS, traffic management, observability, and the operational cost of a service mesh.
Designing a Data Lake on AWS S3
Folder structure, naming conventions, lifecycle policies, and access patterns.
Airflow Best Practices for Production Pipelines
Idempotency, backfilling, SLA misses, and common pitfalls to avoid.
Product Engineering — Service Overview
APIs, dashboards, and services delivered with tests, CI/CD, and observability from day one.
No Sound in Windows — Complete Fix Guide
Systematic audio troubleshooting from service restart to driver reinstall.
HTTP Caching Strategies for APIs and Web Applications
Cache-Control headers, ETags, CDN caching, and cache invalidation.
Extracting Microservices from a Monolith
The strangler fig pattern, identifying seams, and avoiding the distributed monolith.
Fix 100% CPU Usage in Windows
Identify what is consuming CPU and permanently resolve the issue.
Time-Series Databases — InfluxDB vs TimescaleDB vs ClickHouse
Comparing purpose-built and general-purpose solutions for time-series data.
MongoDB Schema Design Patterns
Embedding vs referencing, the subset pattern, and indexing strategy.
Logging Best Practices for Production Services
Structured logging, log levels, correlation IDs, and log aggregation.
Kubernetes Deployment Patterns for Production Services
Deployments, Services, Ingress, HPA, and resource management.
GraphQL vs REST — When to Use Each
Comparing query flexibility, over-fetching, tooling, and operational complexity.
Distributed Tracing — Propagating Context Across Services
Trace context propagation, sampling strategies, and analysing traces.
API Error Handling — Consistent Error Responses
Error format standards, HTTP status code usage, and client-friendly error design.
Designing a Reliable Webhook System
Delivery guarantees, signature verification, retry logic, and consumer best practices.
Background Job Queue Design
Idempotency, retries, dead letter queues, and job observability.
Idiomatic REST API Design Patterns
Naming conventions, filtering, sorting, sparse fieldsets, and HATEOAS considerations.
Data & Platform — Service Overview
Pipelines, vector stores, governance, and privacy-first data design.
Microservices Communication — Sync vs Async Patterns
REST, gRPC, message queues, and choosing the right pattern for each interaction.
OAuth 2.0 and OIDC — Implementing Secure Third-Party Auth
Authorization code flow, PKCE, scopes, and integrating with identity providers.
Designing and Publishing API Client SDKs
Auto-generation vs handwritten, retry logic, versioning, and developer experience.
API Pagination — Cursor, Offset, and Keyset Patterns
When each method works, performance tradeoffs, and implementation details.
API Gateway — Responsibilities and Implementation Patterns
Authentication, rate limiting, routing, request aggregation, and when not to use a gateway.
OpenAPI Spec-First API Development
Write the contract before writing code — benefits, tooling, and workflow.
API Testing Strategy — Unit, Integration, Contract, and E2E
Building a test pyramid that catches real bugs without slowing delivery.
Our observability stack for production services
Logs, metrics, traces — how we instrument every service we ship.