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System Design

Making tradeoffs visible before they become outages.

Load balancers, caches, queues, databases under concurrency — the vocabulary of architecture. Design is choosing which failure modes you can afford.

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A Load Balancer Is Not a Magic Box

Layer 4 vs layer 7, hashing vs health checks, stickiness, and the failure modes hiding behind the most over-trusted building block in web infrastructure.

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Load Balancers, Explained

Layer 4 vs layer 7, health checks, stickiness, and the failure modes behind the most trusted box in your architecture diagram.

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