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What is Event Sourcing?
Understanding Event Sourcing, How it works, and How to Rebuild State
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What is Service Discovery?
Understanding How Services are Discovered in Distributed Systems
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How Message Queues Work
Understanding Publishing, Storage, Consumption, and Fault tolerance in Message Queues
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How to Handle Hot Shard Problem?
Understanding Different Approaches to Address Hot Key/Partition Problem
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How to Secure Webhooks?
Understanding Different Approaches to Authenticate Webhooks
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What is the Two Generals Problem in Distributed Systems?
Understanding How Networks Behave in Distributed Systems
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How to Handle Backlogs in Queues?
Understanding the Approaches to Deal with Backlogs in Asynchronous Systems
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How Canva Handles Billions of Events to Track Content Usage
Understanding The Evolvement of Canva's Content Usage Counting Service Architecture
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How to Avoid Cache Stampede or "Dogpile" Problem Upon Cache Expiry?
Understanding How to Avoid Sudden Traffic Burst When Cache Becomes Invalid
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How Grab Stores and Processes Millions of Orders Everyday
Understanding the Distributed Data Solution That Powers the Grab Orders Platform
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How to Handle Multi-Tenant Performance Issues or "Noisy Neighbor Problem"?
Understanding How to Avoid Performance Degradation Caused by Noisy Neighbors in Multi-Tenant Systems
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How GitHub Scaled Push Flow Using Apache Kafka to Handle Millions of Pushes
Understanding How GitHub Reliably Handles Half a Billion Pushes Every Month
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