FastAPI Background Tasks vs Pub/Sub vs Cloud Tasks: When to Use What
S01E04 of FastAPI in Production
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Testing FastAPI Services: Unit, Integration, and Contract Tests
S01E03 of FastAPI in Production
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Cloud Run Consumers and Cloud Tasks: Reactive and Delayed Workflows
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FastAPI Producer: Publishing Commerce Events to Pub/Sub
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How I'd Design a Chat System Like WhatsApp — WebSockets, Message Delivery, and Scaling to Millions
A practical system design breakdown covering 1-on-1 and group messaging, delivery guarantees, and the architecture decisions that actually matter in production
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Designing a Rate Limiter From Scratch — Token Bucket vs Sliding Window vs Fixed Window vs Leaky Bucket
A practical system design breakdown covering all 4 algorithms, per-user and per-IP limiting, and how to implement it in a distributed system
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