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Pub/Sub Clearly Explained (in Under 6 Minutes)
(6 Minutes) | How It Works, Best Practices, Why Teams Reach for It, When Not to Use It, and Tradeoffs
Dec 19
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Nikki Siapno
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Connection Pooling Clearly Explained
(6 Minutes) | The Problem, How Pooling Works, Benefits vs Tradeoffs, and The Sweet Spot
Dec 17
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Nikki Siapno
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Consistent Hashing Clearly Explained
(6 Minutes) | How It Works, Why It Matters, and When Not to Use It
Dec 14
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Nikki Siapno
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How Rate Limiting Prevents Outages Before They Happen
(5 Minutes) | What Breaks Without Limits, Solutions, Best Practices, Risks, and Trade-Offs
Dec 11
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Nikki Siapno
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ACID vs BASE
(5 Minutes) | How Each Works, The Core Trade-Off, When to Use Each (and When Not to)
Dec 7
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Nikki Siapno
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Health Checks vs Heartbeats
(4 Minutes) | What They Do, When to Use Each, and How They Work Together in Real Systems
Dec 4
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Nikki Siapno
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November 2025
How CDNs Turn Global Traffic Into Local Delivery
(6 Minutes) | When to Use Them, What to Cache and for How Long, and Common Mistakes, How They Work, and the Benefits
Nov 23
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Nikki Siapno
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CDC Clearly Explained
(6 Minutes) | How it Works, When to Use it (and When Not to), The Trade-Offs, and Why Teams Adopt CDC
Nov 19
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Nikki Siapno
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How Observability Turns Alerts Into Insight
(5 Minutes) | What it is (and Isn't), How it Works, and Building Sustainable Observability
Nov 12
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Nikki Siapno
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JWT Clearly Explained
(6 Minutes) | How JWTs Work, the Advantages, the Tradeoffs, Where They Shine, and When Not to Use Them
Nov 4
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Nikki Siapno
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October 2025
SQL vs NoSQL
(5 Minutes) | How to Choose, How Each Works, the Differences, the Benefits, and the Trade-Offs
Oct 25
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Nikki Siapno
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Strong vs Eventual Consistency in Distributed Systems
(5 Minutes) | The Problem, How Each Works, and the Tradeoffs
Oct 23
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Nikki Siapno
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