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Backend Engineering
Servers, protocols, and the request lifecycle.
From a single process to a fleet of services: how HTTP requests are received, routed, processed, and answered — and what the numbers actually mean when they say a server is 'fast'.
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Connection Pools Aren't Free
Pool sizing, exhaustion, idle connections, and the hidden queue — why 'just add a pool' is incomplete advice.
Latency Numbers Every Engineer Should Know
A working model of time on modern hardware: the real cost of a cache miss, a syscall, a network hop, and a disk read — and why these numbers are the vocabulary of systems thinking.
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