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Kafka, RabbitMQ 활용법과 설계 패턴을 스토리텔링으로 풀어냅니다.Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBackend Engineeringevent-driven architecturekafkarabbitmqbackendsystem designmicroservicesasynchttps://souvenirlist.com/blog/webhook-design-patterns-reliable/https://souvenirlist.com/blog/webhook-design-patterns-reliable/Learn reliable webhook patterns including retry strategies, idempotency, signature verification, and dead letter queues with production code examples.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBackend Engineeringwebhooksbackendapisystem designevent-drivenreliabilityhttps://souvenirlist.com/blog/backend-system-design-principles/https://souvenirlist.com/blog/backend-system-design-principles/Core backend design principles: separation of concerns, statelessness, idempotency, and graceful degradation with real failure stories.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBackend Engineeringbackendsystem designarchitecturesoftware engineeringbest practiceshttps://souvenirlist.com/blog/database-design-patterns-sql-nosql/https://souvenirlist.com/blog/database-design-patterns-sql-nosql/A practical decision framework for choosing between SQL and NoSQL databases. 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Covers naming, versioning, pagination, caching, error handling, and security.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTProgrammingrest apiapi designdesign patternsapi best practicesweb developmentbackendhttps://souvenirlist.com/blog/cicd-pipeline-architecture/https://souvenirlist.com/blog/cicd-pipeline-architecture/Design CI/CD pipelines from scratch with GitHub Actions. Covers build, test, deploy stages, blue-green deployments, canary releases, and infrastructure as code.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBackend Engineeringcicddevopsgithub actionsdeploymentbackendautomationhttps://souvenirlist.com/blog/backend-observability-monitoring/https://souvenirlist.com/blog/backend-observability-monitoring/Build observable backend systems with structured logging, Prometheus metrics, and OpenTelemetry distributed tracing.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBackend Engineeringobservabilitymonitoringloggingprometheusgrafanabackendsystem designhttps://souvenirlist.com/blog/api-rate-limiting-design/https://souvenirlist.com/blog/api-rate-limiting-design/Design effective API rate limiting with token bucket, sliding window, and fixed window algorithms. Redis implementation included.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBackend Engineeringrate limitingapibackendredissystem designscalabilityhttps://souvenirlist.com/blog/jwt-authentication-system-design/https://souvenirlist.com/blog/jwt-authentication-system-design/Design secure JWT authentication with access/refresh tokens, httpOnly cookies, token revocation, and OAuth 2.0 integration.Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBackend Engineeringjwtauthenticationsecurityoauthbackendsystem designhttps://souvenirlist.com/blog/message-queue-kafka-rabbitmq/https://souvenirlist.com/blog/message-queue-kafka-rabbitmq/Compare RabbitMQ and Kafka for message queue architecture. Covers event-driven patterns, consumer groups, and dead letter queues.Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTBackend Engineeringkafkarabbitmqmessage queueevent-drivenbackendsystem designhttps://souvenirlist.com/blog/redis-caching-strategies-backend/https://souvenirlist.com/blog/redis-caching-strategies-backend/Practical Redis caching patterns: cache-aside, write-through, write-behind, TTL strategies, and cache invalidation with results.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTBackend Engineeringrediscachingperformancebackendapisystem design