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At peak weekday hours, Slack maintains over five million simultaneous WebSocket sessions. That's not just a metric, but a serious architectural challenge.

Meaningful Names: Name variables and functions to reveal their purpose, not just their value.

What happens when the downstream service is overloaded? Or slow? Or down entirely?

One powerful pattern for solving this problem is the Saga Pattern, a technique originally proposed in the late 1980s but increasingly relevant today.

This article walks through how Canva structures, collects, and distributes billions of events daily, without drowning in tech debt and increasing cloud bills.

Well-designed APIs behave consistently, fair predictably, and grow without friction.