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The fundamental concepts of distributed computing: how multiple machines coordinate to appear as a single coherent system, navigating network partitions, failures, and the CAP theorem

The fundamental trade-off in distributed systems: during a network partition, you must choose between consistency and availability

How distributed messaging systems guarantee each message is processed exactly once, eliminating duplicates while ensuring atomicity across multiple operations

Three developers. Three AI assistants. One payment system. A story about what breaks when everyone ships fast.