Real-World Case Studies: Catastrophic Outages & High-Reliability Patterns
Senior analysis of landmark production outages and reliability architectures — Facebook 2021 BGP/DNS global collapse, AWS Kinesis 2020 OS thread exhaustion, Stripe Idempotency-Key state machine, Discord Go to Rust GC tail latency rewrite, and Graceful Degradation tiers.
Real-World Case Studies: Hyper-Scale Architectures (Shopify, Netflix, Twitter, Facebook, Uber, Slack, LinkedIn)
Deep dive into landmark real-world system designs — Shopify Pod cell-based architecture, Twitter hybrid timeline fan-out, Netflix 7-year microservices evolution, Facebook TAO social graph datastore, Uber DOMA & Schemaless, Slack Flannel edge caching, and LinkedIn Kafka origin.