Well, it’s been another historic year! We’ve watched in awe as the use of real-world generative AI has changed the tech landscape, and while we at the Architecture Blog happily participated, we also made every effort to stay true to our channel’s original scope, and your readership this last year has proven that decision was the right one. Here are our top posts from 2024!

It is often challenging to build scalable, robust serverless applications that might need to talk with external services. In this post, we propose a solution that handles serverless retries when the workflow’s state isn’t managed by an additional service, giving developers fine-grained control over the retry interval, supporting scenarios such as exponential backoff.