MirahLabs Engineering Blog
Technical insights, tutorials, and architectures written by our design and backend engineers.
Microservices vs Monolith: Choosing the Right Architecture for Your Stage
The microservices vs. monolith debate isn't one-size-fits-all. This guide helps engineering teams choose the right architecture based on team size, scale, and product maturity.
Redis Beyond Caching: Pub/Sub, Streams, Sorted Sets, and Distributed Locks
Redis is far more than an in-memory cache. Explore its lesser-known superpowers: Pub/Sub messaging, Redis Streams for event logs, sorted sets for leaderboards, and Redlock for distributed coordination.
API Gateway Design: Rate Limiting, Auth, and Routing at Scale
An API gateway is the front door to your microservices. This guide covers designing gateways with token-based auth, dynamic routing, rate limiting, and circuit breakers.
Architecting for Disaster Recovery: RTO, RPO, and Pilot Light Strategies
Data loss and outages can devastate businesses. Understand Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and compare cold, warm, and hot recovery setups.
Multi-Region Deployment Strategies for High Availability
Running applications across multiple cloud regions protects against regional outages and reduces latency for global users. Learn active-active, active-passive, and data residency strategies.
Cache Invalidation Strategies: Write-Through, Write-Behind, and Cache-Aside
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and gaming names. Demystify write-through, write-behind, and cache-aside patterns.