The 3 Golden Rules of Distributed Systems

Sam Newman boils down resilience into three baby steps: set smart timeouts so you don’t wait forever on a flaky service, build retries that actually help instead of cascading failures, and design everything to be idempotent so reruns won’t blow up your data.

Master these patterns and you’ll move from brittle spaghetti to rock-solid, self-healing systems—no magic involved, just pragmatic engineering.

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