Tag: Error Handling

Orchestrating Chaos: Why AWS Step Functions Became My Secret Weapon for Building Resilient Distributed Systems

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Three years ago, I inherited a distributed system that processed insurance claims across twelve microservices. The orchestration logic lived in a tangled web of message queues, retry handlers, and compensating transactions scattered across multiple codebases. When something failed—and in distributed systems, something always fails—debugging meant correlating logs across a dozen services while the business waited… Continue reading