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.
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.
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.