When working in a distributed system, your overall system is comprised of discrete components which I will call "bounded contexts." Sometimes these bounded contexts have the need to be eventually consistent. In this article we will cover Out of Band Healing, a pattern that can be used to reduce temporal coupling when healing your server-side caches.

APIs are an integral part of our distributed system here at Pluralsight. We use them to communicate between and within bounded contexts. One of our engineering team mottoes is "Be Explicit." To that end, we have a categorization system for the APIs we build and publish. This helps us know what the API is for and who should (and who shouldn't) be using it.