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#performance
4 articles
◆◆IntermediateNetflixLinkedIn
01Backpressure & Flow Control
What happens when a fast producer overwhelms a slow consumer? Backpressure, bounded buffers, load shedding, and why unbounded queues are a trap.
#distributed-systems#reliability#streaming
17 min◆◆◆AdvancedGoogleAmazon
02Storage Engines: LSM-Trees vs B-Trees
Why does Postgres read fast and Cassandra write fast? The two storage-engine families that underpin every database — and their write/read/space amplification trade-offs.
#databases#storage#performance
19 min◆◆IntermediatePostgresMySQL
03Database Indexing
B-trees, LSM-trees, hash indexes, covering indexes, partial indexes — what they do, when they hurt, and how to read an EXPLAIN plan with confidence.
#databases#indexing#performance
15 min◆Beginner
04Caching
Cache hierarchies, write strategies, eviction policies, Redis data structures, the four classic cache pathologies, and how to size and warm a cache properly.
#caching#performance#redis
18 min