How does technical debt accrue? Most people would say bad engineering. What is bad engineering? Inflexibility? Is one system engineered correctly to do one thing trying to do something else considered bad engineering?

The lock mechanism is an integral part of any modern system. In software applications, locks are used to ensure that multiple users do not simultaneously access and modify the same resource.

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This is a boring morning for every employee of MegaCorpMoneyMaker, the famous E-commerce. You are no exception: only dragging yourself out of your bed to crawl to your office required some superhuman efforts. Dave, your colleague developer, loudly explain to an intern what she should do to connect to one of the company’s Kubernetes cluster. “So, now, you need to open your virtual shell for your terminal to request information from your console using Bash.

Circuit breakers are a vital component of any distributed system, helping to improve reliability and resilience by preventing failures from cascading and causing widespread damage.