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How to Design a Rate Limiter That Actually Works at Scale
System Design#rate-limiting#redis

How to Design a Rate Limiter That Actually Works at Scale

Rate limiting looks simple - until you deploy it across multiple servers and it starts failing silently. This article covers what breaks in production and how to fix it.

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Raunak Gupta·Mar 22·28 min
Caching Strategies That Work (And When They Fail)
System Design#caching#redis

Caching Strategies That Work (And When They Fail)

Caching improves performance - until it starts serving stale data or becomes your biggest bottleneck. This article covers the real decisions you'll face in production.

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Raunak Gupta·Mar 22·32 min
SQS vs Kafka: When to Use What in Real Systems
System Design#aws#kafka

SQS vs Kafka: When to Use What in Real Systems

Both SQS and Kafka solve similar problems - until your system scales and the differences start to hurt. This article covers when each one breaks and how to make the right call.

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Raunak Gupta·Mar 22·35 min