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Weekly column simplifying databases, system design, architecture, and engineering careers with easy explanations, valuable insights, and expert advice.

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Cache Stampede Prevention: Distributed Locking, Pub/Sub, and Request Coalescing

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Redis Locks: Working, Failure Modes and Real-World Examples

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How Distributed Systems Store Files: Databases, Object Storage, and the Trade-offs

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Database Proxies: Connection Management at Scale

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Connection Pooling: Fundamentals, Challenges and Trade-offs

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API Pagination: Techniques, Real-World Applications And Best Practices

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Anatomy of Facebook's 2010 outage: Cache invalidation gone wrong

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Library vs Service: Lessons from Netflix's Multi-Year Migration

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DynamoDB Global Secondary Indexes - Internal Working and Best Practices

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How DynamoDB Scales: Architecture and Design Lessons

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How NGINX's Event-Driven Architecture Handles Million Concurrent Connections ?

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Redis Persistence Dive Deep - Trade-offs Between Performance And Durability

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Scaling Distributed Systems with the Scatter-Gather Pattern

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Designing Instagram's Video Uploads: Optimizing for Low Latency and scalability

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How Zerodha Scaled Reporting with 7M PostgreSQL Tables

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Unraveling the Internals of Video Streaming services

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TAO - Meta's scalable architecture powering world's largest social graph

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Unleashing the Power of Change Data Capture (CDC) for Real-Time Data Syncing

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Master System Design Interviews: A 6-Step Framework for Success

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Designing RealTime Collaborative Systems: Deep Dive into Mouse Pointer Tracking

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