Databases & Caching
Exploring Databases & Caching insights, lessons, and discoveries from my software engineering journey.
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DesignFlix 22: Eight Redis Uses and What Can Go Wrong
- #DesignFlix
- #Redis
- #Caching
- #Data Structures
08 Jul 2026 | 6 min read
DesignFlix 23: How a Merkle Proof Checks One File
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- #Merkle Trees
- #Data Integrity
- #Cryptography
07 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
DesignFlix 9: Replication, Stale Reads and the Next Leader
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- #Replication
- #Failover
- #Consistency
24 Jun 2026 | 5 min read
DesignFlix 8: Partitioning and Sharding Depend on the Queries
- #DesignFlix
- #Sharding
- #Partitioning
- #Database Scaling
23 Jun 2026 | 5 min read
DesignFlix 4: Where Data Is Cached, and When It Gets Old
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- #Caching
- #Cache Invalidation
- #Performance
19 Jun 2026 | 5 min read
Bloom Filters: What a Username Check Can Actually Tell You
- #DesignFlix
- #Bloom Filters
- #Data Structures
- #Membership Tests
08 Nov 2025 | 5 min read
Similarity Caching: When Can Two Questions Share an Answer?
- #DesignFlix
- #Semantic Caching
- #Similarity Search
- #Embeddings
07 Nov 2025 | 5 min read