System Design: Simple But Common Mistakes

Explore common system design mistakes in this 14-minute conference talk from Conf42 Golang 2024. Delve into seven critical issues, including idempotent ID implementation, handling external requests within transactions, and concurrent service requests. Learn about the importance of rate limiters, memory limiters, and proper retry mechanisms with backoff strategies. Gain valuable insights to improve your system design skills and avoid these simple but impactful errors in Golang development.

intro
preamble
issue 1. idempotent id
issue 2. external request inside transaction
issue 3. requesting service at the same time
issue 4. lack of rate limiter
issue 5. lack of memory limiter
issue 6. no retries
issue 7. there are retries but no backoff
backoff strategies
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