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Compensation Is Not Rollback
Rollback is a database primitive. Distributed systems don't have one, and treating compensation as if they did is how workflows quietly break.
Your Idempotency Check Has a Race in It
Idempotency at rest is easy. Two retries arriving at the same moment is the case that breaks the version most teams wrote.
Eventual Consistency Explained
Your data disagreeing with itself isn't a bug. It's a trade-off. What eventual consistency guarantees, where you're already relying on it, and how to design for it instead of getting bitten by it.
When Business Processes Outlive Your Request
A practical guide to designing long-running business processes with the Saga pattern - covering orchestration vs choreography, compensating transactions, timeouts, and observability.
Keep Your Claude Code Agents Out of the Team's Repo
How to keep Claude Code agents and skills out of shared repos using a dedicated config repo and symlinks.
Written by Irina Dominte: Software Architect at Particular Software, Microsoft MVP, international speaker, and course author.
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