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How to protect your db in case of a cache stampede

A practical design for idempotent async job processing with queues, persistence, retries, and exactly-once downstream effects.

A quick walkthrough of graceful shutdown in Go apps, including signal handling, request draining, and resource cleanup.

An exploration of B+ tree structure, range scans, page alignment, and basic operations as used in database indexes.

Notes on why databases need indexes and how B+ trees, LSM trees, and SSTables shape storage engine tradeoffs.