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API Gateways: Routing, Policy and Reliable Aggregation
Define gateway responsibilities, preserve service authorization, and plan timeouts, partial responses and route behavior before adding API composition.
Bulkheads: Bound Concurrency Without Hiding Shared Limits
Apply resource isolation carefully, distinguish idle connection timeouts from deadlines, and test a small admission limiter with explicit overload behavior.
Circuit Breakers: Failure Windows, Probes and Safe Recovery
Configure circuit breakers around real failure semantics, bound recovery probes, and combine them with deadlines and concurrency limits.
CQRS and Event Sourcing: Separate the Decisions
Understand command/query separation, event streams, projection lag and concurrency before choosing a more complex persistence model.
Debugging CSS Specificity, Cascade Layers and Unexpected Overrides
Trace the winning CSS declaration, distinguish specificity from cascade priority, and use layers and low-specificity selectors to keep component overrides predictable.
Modular Monoliths: Enforcing Boundaries in One Application
Define module ownership, public interfaces, data access and dependency checks without treating deployment size or team headcount as architecture rules.