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Caching in 2026: Cache-Aside, HybridCache, and the Four Failure Modes

Caching in 2026: Cache-Aside, HybridCache, and the Four Failure Modes

Cache-aside vs write-through, .NET 9 HybridCache (L1+L2 with stampede protection), TTL design with jitter, and the four ways caches actually fail in production.

09 Dec 202513 min

Sharding: Picking a Key You Won't Regret in Two Years

Sharding: Picking a Key You Won't Regret in Two Years

Hash vs range vs directory sharding, the shard-key checklist, consistent hashing in C#, dual-write resharding, and when managed Cosmos DB / SQL Hyperscale beats DIY.

11 Dec 202514 min

Load Balancing: L4 vs L7, P2C, and Health Checks That Actually Catch Failures

Load Balancing: L4 vs L7, P2C, and Health Checks That Actually Catch Failures

Algorithm matrix (round-robin, least-conn, EWMA, P2C, consistent hash), .NET 9 health checks, outlier ejection, the Azure LB service map, and Polly v8 resilience.

13 Dec 202513 min

Rate Limiting: Token Bucket, Sliding Window, and Distributed Counters

Rate Limiting: Token Bucket, Sliding Window, and Distributed Counters

ASP.NET Core RateLimiter, Redis-backed sliding-window in Lua, picking the right partition key, tiering by endpoint cost, and the 429 + Retry-After contract.

15 Dec 202512 min

Message Queues: Delivery Semantics, Idempotency, and the Outbox Pattern

Message Queues: Delivery Semantics, Idempotency, and the Outbox Pattern

Queue vs stream vs topic, why exactly-once is marketing, peek-lock + explicit complete, idempotency tables, the transactional outbox, and Service Bus sessions for FIFO.

17 Dec 202514 min

Consistency Models: From Strong to Eventual (and What CAP Doesn't Tell You)

Consistency Models: From Strong to Eventual (and What CAP Doesn't Tell You)

Linearizable, causal, bounded staleness, session, eventual — what each one buys you, Cosmos DB's 5 levels, SQL isolation, read-your-writes, and sagas instead of 2PC.

19 Dec 202513 min