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Your Monorepo Is a Distributed System Whether You Like It or Not: Nx, Kafka, and CQRS as Force Multipliers

Monorepos are making a comeback, but this time they’re not fighting microservices, they’re eating them from the inside. Here’s how Nx, Kafka, and CQRS create a unified codebase that scales better than the sum of its parts.

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Checkpointing: The Silent Killer of Distributed Systems

Implementing checkpointing mechanisms to track progress in message-driven systems ensures reliability, idempotency, and recovery from failures without reprocessing or data loss.

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Versioning Strategies for Events: Date-Tied, Semantic, or Schema Registry?

A brutally honest comparison of event versioning tactics, how teams actually manage schema evolution in production, and why most approaches create more problems than they solve.

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Beyond the Tutorials: What Really Happens with the Outbox Pattern

The outbox pattern promises atomic consistency in distributed systems, but the implementation reality is messier than most tutorials admit. Here’s what actually happens when you combine Go, Postgres, and the complexities of real-world event delivery.

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