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How to Build a 100k RPS View Counter: Cricket World Cup & IPL Scale

A deep-dive into engineering a high-throughput view counter in Go using Kafka, in-memory sharded aggregation, and slotted Postgres tables to handle 100,000 RPS.

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From Outage to Optimization: Stopping Cache Stampedes Dead in Their Tracks

How a thundering herd of cache misses can take down a production system — and the patterns (mutex locks, probabilistic early expiry, request coalescing) that stop them.

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