Software Engineer & Architect
Practical engineering lessons, architectural trade-offs, and production systems from Rehan Akbar, a software engineer based in Singapore.
Recent Publications
Three most recent entries from the engineering journal
Diagnose runtime, data, and release coupling in distributed systems. Build a resilient .NET 10 boundary using a transactional outbox, relational atomicity, HTTP resilience pipelines, and idempotent inbox consumers.
Read articleA production engineering guide to building resilient service-to-service HTTP integrations in .NET 10. Master Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Resilience, Polly v8 pipeline ordering, retry amplification traps, ambiguous write failures, EF Core idempotency keys, and connection pool dynamics.
Read articleEliminate distributed data loss in .NET 10. Learn to implement the Transactional Outbox pattern with EF Core interceptors, contention-free SKIP LOCKED relays, UUIDv7 indexing, idempotent consumer inboxes, and unbroken W3C distributed tracing.
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