microservices-patterns

Design microservices architectures with service boundaries, event-driven communication, and resilience patterns. Use when building distributed systems, decomposing monoliths, or implementing microservices.

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Validation — 13 / 16 Passed

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Evaluation results

100%

26%

Build a Resilient Product Catalog Service Client

Resilient HTTP service client

Criteria

Without context

With context

httpx client used

100%

httpx timeout config

50%

100%

httpx limits config

100%

tenacity retry decorator

100%

retry attempt count

80%

100%

exponential backoff params

30%

100%

circuitbreaker library

100%

circuit failure threshold

80%

100%

circuit recovery timeout

80%

100%

async implementation

100%

raise_for_status called

100%

Without context: $0.3589 · 1m 29s · 16 turns · 65 in / 5,010 out tokens

With context: $0.7355 · 2m 20s · 33 turns · 63 in / 7,059 out tokens

100%

47%

Implement an Event Bus for a Distributed Order System

Kafka event bus implementation

Criteria

Without context

With context

aiokafka producer

100%

aiokafka consumer

100%

JSON value serializer

50%

100%

DomainEvent dataclass

100%

event_id field

100%

event_type field

100%

aggregate_id field

100%

occurred_at field

100%

data field

100%

aggregate_id as Kafka key

100%

topic from event_type

100%

producer started/stopped

100%

asdict used for publish

50%

100%

Without context: $0.4446 · 2m 1s · 18 turns · 18 in / 6,894 out tokens

With context: $0.6853 · 2m 27s · 28 turns · 26 in / 7,690 out tokens

94%

30%

Design a Checkout Saga for an E-Commerce Platform

Saga distributed transaction pattern

Criteria

Without context

With context

SagaStep class

100%

action callable

100%

compensation callable

100%

SagaStatus enum

100%

PENDING status value

100%

COMPLETED status value

100%

COMPENSATING status value

100%

FAILED status value

100%

reverse compensation order

100%

compensation on exception

50%

100%

compensation failures logged/swallowed

100%

context dict threaded through

63%

100%

separate service data

100%

async saga execution

Without context: $0.3304 · 1m 39s · 13 turns · 14 in / 5,181 out tokens

With context: $1.1393 · 3m 31s · 25 turns · 25 in / 13,417 out tokens

Evaluated: about 4 hours ago
Agent: Claude Code

Table of Contents

Build a Resilient Product Catalog Service Client Implement an Event Bus for a Distributed Order System Design a Checkout Saga for an E-Commerce Platform

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