System Architecture
How an Unthrottled Form Took Down Production: The Critical Need for API Rate Limiting

How an Unthrottled Form Took Down Production: The Critical Need for API Rate Limiting

A simple newsletter subscription form without API rate limiting triggered a cascading production outage on a logistics platform. Unthrottled requests caused database connection exhaustion, depleted third-party email quotas on Resend, and generated costly infrastructure bills. Learn how to implement Redis-backed sliding window rate limiting, decouple email dispatch with message queues & bot. #RateLimiting #SystemDesign #DevOps #SRE #Nodejs #Redis #Cybersecurity #WebSecurity #BackendDevelopment

Software Engineering
Building a Resilient Payroll System with Express, Monnify, and Background Jobs

Building a Resilient Payroll System with Express, Monnify, and Background Jobs

Manual or synchronous bulk payment processing is highly vulnerable to network timeouts, rate limits, and system crashes. This technical guide explains how to engineer a fault-tolerant, high-throughput payroll disbursement engine using Node.js, Express, and the Monnify payment gateway, decoupled by a Redis-backed BullMQ background task queue. #Nodejs #ExpressJS #Fintech #Monnify #BullMQ #Redis #BackendDevelopment #APIs #SoftwareArchitecture #SystemDesign #QueueManagement #PaymentGateway