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How Databases Actually Store Data: Pages, Tuples, and the Architecture That Matters
There's a gap between understanding how SQL works and understanding how databases actually store bits on disk. Most developers never cross that gap. ...
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Consistency and Data Models in Real Life: The Art of Building Systems That Never Lie to You
## The World Your System Actually Lives In There's a moment in every engineer's career where they ship something beautiful. The code is clean. The t...
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ACID Properties and Isolation Levels: Deep Dive into Production Database Behavior
## Why This Matters in Production Every backend engineer has a story about a production incident that made ACID properties real. Maybe it was a race...
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Idempotency in Production: Making Your System Safe to Retry
## The Real Cost - What happens when you don't have idempotency Every backend engineer has experienced this: a user clicks a button, the request tim...
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Database Indexing Strategies for High-Performance Systems
You know that feeling when you're searching for a specific book in a library with thousands of volumes, and there's no catalog system? That's basical...
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Distributed Transactions: The Complexity of Distributed Transactions
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