Dhaka, Bangladesh

Asif Chowdhury

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Recent Articles

20 min read

Event-Driven Microservices: Patterns, Implementation & Debugging

A comprehensive guide to event-driven architecture for microservices — covering Saga, CQRS, Event Sourcing patterns, message broker selection, migration strategies, and debugging async systems.

16 min read

CI/CD Pipeline Best Practices: A Production-Ready Guide for 2026

12 CI/CD pipeline best practices that reduce deployment risk and increase velocity — with real failure scenarios, tool-agnostic examples, and a phased implementation roadmap.

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Normalization vs Denormalization: When to Use Each in Database Design

Learn when to normalize vs denormalize your database. Includes performance benchmarks, migration strategies, and a hybrid approach framework for production systems.

18 min read

Application Monitoring & Observability: A Practical Implementation Guide for 2026

A vendor-neutral guide to implementing observability with OpenTelemetry, choosing backends, and avoiding cost surprises. Includes instrumentation examples and the observability pyramid framework.

22 min read

Integration Testing Strategies: A Practical Guide for Backend Systems

Learn integration testing strategies for backend systems. Includes test data management, real vs mock decisions, contract testing, and Testcontainers examples.

22 min read

System Design Interview: Distributed Systems Fundamentals

Master distributed systems for tech interviews. Covers CAP theorem, scalability patterns, consistency models, and interview frameworks with real examples.

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