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Backend engineer. Writing about Go, distributed systems, and the messy parts in between.
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Scaling Reads
Every lever for serving millions of reads per second — replicas, caches, fan-out, denormalization, CQRS — with case studies from Twitter, Netflix, and Discord.
2026-04-22
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