System Design Codex

The Role of Caching at Netflix

How Netflix Holds Your Attention

4 hrs ago • Saurabh Dashora

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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

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Top Strategies to Reduce Latency

Latency is the new downtime

Jan 20 • Saurabh Dashora

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Sticky Sessions or Not?

How to decide?

Jan 13 • Saurabh Dashora

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Consistent Hashing in a Nutshell

How it works?

Jan 6 • Saurabh Dashora

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December 2025

Polling or Webhooks

When to use what?

Dec 30, 2025 • Saurabh Dashora

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Multiple Places Where Caching Exists

Caching is everywhere

Dec 23, 2025 • Saurabh Dashora

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Database Scaling and Performance Tips

Strategies you must know

Dec 16, 2025 • Saurabh Dashora

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LSM Trees Explained

Making database writes fast

Dec 9, 2025 • Saurabh Dashora

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Top Microservices Patterns

The ones that are most common

Dec 2, 2025 • Saurabh Dashora

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November 2025

5 Million Profiles Reads/Second - Caching at LinkedIn Scale

Couchbase Cache, Espresso and Brooklin

Nov 25, 2025 • Saurabh Dashora

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An Intro to DB Sharding

Strategies and decision method

Nov 18, 2025 • Saurabh Dashora

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