May 7 路 5 min read 路 The Bug That Only Happens Sometimes User reports: "I updated my profile but it still shows the old name." You refresh: new name appears. You ask them to refresh: still old name. You debug together: it's back to new name. The user: "This is clearly br...
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Apr 28 路 2 min read 路 Pick two: consistency, availability, partition tolerance Day 124 of 149 馃憠 Full deep-dive with code examples The Three Wishes Analogy A genie says: "Pick any TWO wishes, but not all three" Wish 1: Fastest car Wish 2: Cheapest car Wish 3: Most relia...
Join discussionMar 31 路 8 min read 路 Node.js Distributed Systems: Consistent Hashing, DHTs, and P2P Architecture Every distributed system eventually hits the same wall: the central coordinator becomes the bottleneck. Whether it's a load balancer under traffic, a cache that needs reshard...
Join discussionFeb 12 路 11 min read 路 Why Traditional Caching Approaches Fail at Scale Single-instance Redis deployments hit hard limits around 25GB of memory and 100,000 operations per second on modern hardware. Vertical scaling becomes prohibitively expensive, and replica-only architec...
Join discussionFeb 12 路 3 min read 路 Temporal Workflow Orchestration: Reliable Background Jobs The Challenge I Faced Three months ago, I was debugging the same issue over and over. Then I discovered this solution. Table of Contents Why This Matters Core Concepts Explained 5 Essential P...
Join discussionJan 4, 2024 路 10 min read 路 Operating systems can be broadly classified into several categories based on their architecture, design, and usage. Monolithic OS: Definition: A monolithic operating system represents a traditional operating system architecture where the entire sys...
Join discussionSep 17, 2023 路 5 min read 路 Caching is a crucial optimization technique for improving the performance and scalability of Web APIs. In this article, we'll explore various caching options available in .NET Web API, including in-memory caching, Redis caching, and using IDistribute...
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