https://blog.rulyotano.com/tags/backend/ Recent content in Backend on Raul's Blog Hugo en-us Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rulyotano.com/articles/reliable-microservices-communication/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rulyotano.com/articles/reliable-microservices-communication/ <p>Distributed systems fail in ways that monoliths never do. In a single process, if a function call fails you get an exception — simple, local, easy to reason about. Spread that same call across a network boundary and suddenly you&rsquo;re dealing with partial failures, redelivered messages, timeouts that may or may not mean the operation succeeded, and cascading outages that start from something as mundane as a slow database query.</p>