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The Circuit Breaker Pattern

Stop cascading failures by detecting when a downstream service is unhealthy and short-circuiting calls until it recovers.

The Saga Pattern: Distributed Transactions Without 2PC

The API Gateway Pattern

Monolith vs Microservices: When to Split

Clean Architecture: The Dependency Rule
Source code dependencies must always point inward — toward higher-level policy and away from details like frameworks and databases.
Hexagonal Architecture: Ports and Adapters
Isolate your domain from infrastructure by inverting dependencies — the application core knows nothing about HTTP, databases, or queues.