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Airbnb's Move from Monolith
The journey of migration
Feb 17 • Saurabh Dashora
Eraser’s New AI-Driven Diagramming Workflow
Making Documentation Wonderful Again
Feb 10 • Saurabh Dashora
The Role of Caching at Netflix
How Netflix Holds Your Attention
Feb 3 • Saurabh Dashora

January 2026

Synchronous Communication is NOT the Only Way
There are other ways your application components can talk to each other
Jan 28 • Saurabh Dashora
Top Strategies to Reduce Latency
Latency is the new downtime
Jan 20 • Saurabh Dashora
Sticky Sessions or Not?
How to decide?
Jan 13 • Saurabh Dashora
Consistent Hashing in a Nutshell
How it works?
Jan 6 • Saurabh Dashora

December 2025

Polling or Webhooks
When to use what?
Dec 30, 2025 • Saurabh Dashora
Multiple Places Where Caching Exists
Caching is everywhere
Dec 23, 2025 • Saurabh Dashora
Database Scaling and Performance Tips
Strategies you must know
Dec 16, 2025 • Saurabh Dashora
LSM Trees Explained
Making database writes fast
Dec 9, 2025 • Saurabh Dashora
Top Microservices Patterns
The ones that are most common
Dec 2, 2025 • Saurabh Dashora
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