We Added Redis to Make Things Faster. It Made Things Worse.
Caching cut our response times, then introduced stale data, cache stampedes, invalidation bugs, and a database that struggled when Redis disappeared.
Sep 26, 20269 min read1
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Consistent Hashing: Why Adding One Server Shouldn't Move Everything
Why adding one server can reshuffle almost everything under naive hashing, and how a ring of virtual nodes keeps that from happening.
Sep 24, 20268 min read
How Netflix's Architecture Works in 2026: A Developer's Guide
From the 2008 database failure to today's EKS, Envoy, Open Connect, GraphQL, AV1 and AI infrastructure — and the engineering principles that survived every rewrite.
Aug 31, 202615 min read2