Learn distributed system design patterns through real-world analogies, interactive diagrams, and bite-sized lessons — no PhD required.
Before microservices, everything was a monolith. Let's understand why that changed — using a food analogy you'll never forget.
Imagine running a restaurant. How you organize the kitchen tells the whole story.
One super-chef takes your order, cooks all dishes, prepares drinks, handles billing, and cleans the table. If they get sick — the whole restaurant shuts down. They can't scale when it gets busy.
Separate teams: a pizza chef, a dessert chef, a bartender, a cashier. Each does one thing perfectly. Busy dessert night? Add more dessert staff. Pizza chef sick? Other stations still run fine.
Monolith
Bug in payments?
Whole app goes down.
Microservices
Payment service fails?
Orders still work!
Six essential patterns every microservices architect needs to know. Click any card to dive deep.
The single front door to all your services. Routes requests, handles auth, rate limiting and more.
RoutingServices communicate by publishing and subscribing to events. Completely decoupled!
AsyncManage distributed transactions across services with choreography or orchestration.
TransactionsPrevent cascading failures by stopping calls to a service that's struggling.
ResilienceSeparate read and write models for better performance and scalability.
PerformanceAttach helper containers alongside each service for logging, monitoring, and proxying.
Infrastructure8 questions to solidify your understanding. No stakes, just learning.