MirahLabs Engineering Blog
Technical insights, tutorials, and architectures written by our design and backend engineers.
Event-Driven Architecture with Apache Kafka: Patterns and Pitfalls
Kafka enables high-throughput event streaming for decoupled microservices. Learn producer/consumer patterns, consumer groups, schema evolution, and how to avoid the most common EDA mistakes.
Saga Orchestration vs. Choreography in Distributed Transactions
Distributed microservices cannot rely on database locks. Learn how Saga patterns coordinate multi-step transactions using Orchestration or Choreography workflows.
Designing for Failure: Chaos Engineering with Chaos Monkey
Netflix's Chaos Monkey intentionally kills production systems to build teams and infrastructure that are genuinely resilient. Learn how to implement chaos engineering principles in your own stack.
Designing High-Availability Systems: Active-Active vs. Active-Passive Configurations
Maximize uptime for mission-critical applications. Compare active-active and active-passive cluster topologies, load balancing, and failover mechanics.
The Outbox Pattern: Guaranteeing Eventual Consistency in Distributed Systems
Updating a database and publishing an event to a message broker in a single action often leads to race conditions. Use the Outbox Pattern to guarantee dual-write consistency.
Domain-Driven Design: Bounded Contexts and Aggregates in Practice
Domain-Driven Design aligns software models with business domains. Learn how Bounded Contexts, Aggregates, and Domain Events work together to build maintainable enterprise systems.