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Understanding Application Performance from a User Perspective
Application performance is often discussed in technical terms—response times, throughput, resource utilization. While these metrics matter, they don’t always r...
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From memory to machines: how notifications actually work
How marketing thinks - We want to send messages. - We want people to remember us. - We want them to come back. How engineering thinks - We need reliability. -...
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Understanding AWS Regions and Availability Zones (Simple Guide)
When I first started using AWS, I kept seeing options for Region and Availability Zone whenever I tried to create resources. At first, I mostly ignored them and...
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Thinking in First Principles: How to Question an Async Queue–Based Design
Async queues are one of the most commonly suggested “solutions” in system design interviews, but many candidates jump straight to using queues without understan...
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SRE Weekly Issue #505
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Hopp: Paging at 2am? 🚨 Make incident triage feel like you’re at the same keyboard with Hopp. crisp, readable...
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Beyond the Buzzwords: 5 Counter-Intuitive Lessons in System Design
Introduction The Elegance Below the Surface Have you ever wondered how a platform like YouTube can seamlessly handle billions of video plays, uploads, and comm...
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When Systems Work But No One Wakes Up: The Failure Between Monitoring and Human Response
At 2:07 a.m., a core production node went down. CPU usage spiked, latency ballooned and requests started timing out across the cluster. Monitoring tools caught...
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6 GitOps Practices That Actually Work
GitOps: From Promise to Practice GitOps was pitched as a transformative approach to software delivery and infrastructure management, promising better outcomes...
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The unseen work of building reliable AI agents
'Reinforcement learning gyms' train agents on the many low-level tasks that they must chain together to execute customer requests....
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Part 3 - Production-Ready C#: Resource Management, Testing & Telemetry, Security & Reliability
This post focuses on the practices that keep C services healthy in production: proper disposal IDisposable/IAsyncDisposable, timeouts and cancellation, tests/be...
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How I Think About Backend Engineering as a Student
Introduction When I started learning backend development, I initially thought it was just about writing APIs and connecting databases. But as I progressed thro...
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How Small Engineering Teams Can Improve Reliability Without Adding Process Overhead
Modern software teams are under constant pressure to ship faster while maintaining reliability. For small engineering teams, this balance can feel especially di...