MirahLabs Engineering Blog
Technical insights, architectural deep-dives, and system designs authored by our product engineers and AI research leads.
The Outbox Pattern: Guaranteeing Eventual Consistency in Distributed Systems
Updating a database and publishing an event to a message broker in a single action often leads to race conditions. Use the Outbox Pattern to guarantee dual-write consistency.
Designing Notification Systems at Scale: Push, Email, SMS, and In-App
Notification systems are deceptively complex at scale. Learn how to design a unified notification engine that handles push, email, SMS, and in-app notifications with preference management, rate limiting, and retry logic.
Designing High-Availability Systems: Active-Active vs. Active-Passive Configurations
Maximize uptime for mission-critical applications. Compare active-active and active-passive cluster topologies, load balancing, and failover mechanics.
Domain-Driven Design: Bounded Contexts and Aggregates in Practice
Domain-Driven Design aligns software models with business domains. Learn how Bounded Contexts, Aggregates, and Domain Events work together to build maintainable enterprise systems.
Recommender Systems: Collaborative Filtering to Deep Learning Architectures
Explore the evolution of recommender systems, from simple matrix factorization algorithms to deep neural networks like Wide & Deep and Two-Tower architectures.
Event Sourcing in Financial Ledgers: Building Immutable Trade Audit Trails
CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) and Event Sourcing are powerful patterns for systems that need separate read and write optimization. Learn how they work together.