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Thundering Herd Problem (Cache Stampede): Solutions & Prevention | System Design Tutorial
A popular cached item expires, and thousands of concurrent requests simultaneously try to regenerate it by hitting the same backend database…
Oct 5 • 
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September 2025

Sticky Session Failure: From Stateful Chaos to Stateless Resilience Sticky Session Failure
📚 Section 1:
Sep 25 • 
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Garbage Collection (GC) Pauses: A "stop-the-world" GC pause in a critical service
Master Guide: Taming Garbage Collection Pauses in Production
Sep 21 • 
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Why Your 99th Percentile Latency Matters More Than Average Response Time | Systems Engineering
Today, we're not just talking about it—we're building a system that demonstrates it and then fixing it.
Sep 12
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July 2025

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Jul 24 • 
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