Waqas Ahmad — Software Architect & Technical Consultant

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👋 Hi, I'm Waqas — a Software Architect and Technical Consultant specializing in .NET, Azure, microservices, and API-first system design..
I help companies build reliable, maintainable, and high-performance backend platforms that scale.

Experienced across engineering ecosystems shaped by Microsoft, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and the Apache Software Foundation.

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Failure Handling

Definition

On step failure run compensations for all completed steps in reverse order.

As defined in the knowledge graph

Strategy for managing backend failures. — From: API Gateway vs BFF: When to Use Which
When cache is down: fail open (skip cache) or fail closed (fail request). — From: Caching Strategies: Redis, In-Memory, and Distributed in .NET

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Circuit Breaker Half-Open Trial Retry Timeout

Articles mentioning this concept

API Gateway vs BFF: When to Use Which Caching Strategies: Redis, In-Memory, and Distributed in .NET Saga Pattern: Orchestrator vs Choreography in Microservices