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Using Branded Types to Prevent Unit Confusion in TypeScriptWhen a stringly-typed user ID and order ID look the same to the compiler, bad things happen. Branded types catch these at compile time.
typescriptsystem-design
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Four Redis Caching Strategies and When to Avoid ThemCache-aside, read-through, write-through, and write-behind — each solves a different problem. Here's where each one broke for us.
redisperformance
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Zero-Downtime Database Migrations: Our Rollback StrategyA failed migration doesn't have to mean downtime. Here's how we structure migrations so every change is safely reversible.
postgresqlinfrastructure
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Designing API Rate Limits: Token Bucket vs Sliding WindowToken bucket is simple. Sliding window is fair. Here's the trade-off we made and why we ended up keeping both.
system-designperformance
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A Circuit Breaker Implementation in Go That Saved Our UptimeWhen a downstream dependency started failing, the circuit breaker pattern prevented cascading failures across three services.
gosystem-design
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Context Cancellation in Go: Three Patterns I Use Every DayContext cancellation is easy to get wrong. Here are three patterns that survived production — and one that didn't.
gosystem-design
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Notes on DDIA Chapters 5-6: Replication and PartitioningReplication strategies are trade-offs between consistency, latency, and availability. Here's what I took away from Kleppmann's deep dive.
book-notessystem-design
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