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Practical design principles help engineers make explicit trade-offs between reliability, maintainability, performance, and operational cost. This guide applies them to concrete decisions, including how a 99.9% availability target changes retry behavior and dependency design.
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A practical catalog of backend architecture patterns—monoliths, microservices, event-driven, and serverless—drilling into concrete trade-offs, real-world decision criteria, and when to apply each pattern. Includes examples from dated deployments and concrete metrics to guide choices.