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    Kafka Consumer Lag Is a Symptom, Not a Problem
    Distributed Systems
    7 min

    Kafka Consumer Lag Is a Symptom, Not a Problem

    Kafka consumer lag is one of the most misunderstood metrics in streaming systems. Teams panic when lag increases, celebrate when it drops to zero, and often miss the real issue entirely. This post explains what lag actually means, when it matters, and how senior teams reason about it in production.</p>

    Why Your Docker Images Are Quietly Killing Your Cloud Bills (and Latency)
    Cloud & DevOps
    7 min

    Why Your Docker Images Are Quietly Killing Your Cloud Bills (and Latency)

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    Making Voice AI Truly Real-Time: Reducing Latency in Production Systems
    AI
    10 min

    Making Voice AI Truly Real-Time: Reducing Latency in Production Systems

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    Preserving Context in LLMs: Why Long Conversations Are Harder Than They Look
    AI
    10 min

    Preserving Context in LLMs: Why Long Conversations Are Harder Than They Look

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    How Amazon S3 Really Works: Designing Storage for Internet Scale
    Distributed Systems
    8 min

    How Amazon S3 Really Works: Designing Storage for Internet Scale

    Amazon S3 looks deceptively simple: put an object, get an object. Behind that simplicity is one of the most sophisticated distributed storage systems ever built.

    Service-to-Service Communication in the Cloud: What Can Go Wrong?
    Backend Engineering
    10 min

    Service-to-Service Communication in the Cloud: What Can Go Wrong?

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