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Most engineering content is noise. We filter for what matters: - Backend Architecture - System Design - AI in Production Real decisions. Real trade-offs.

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Most engineers use LLMs daily but can't explain what happens between prompt and response. Here's the full pipeline — 8 concepts, one image. Save this. 🔁 Tokenization → Embeddings → Attention → Transformer → KV Cache → Sampling → Context Window → Inference Optimisation
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Pick your cache strategy based on what you’re willing to lose: Freshness Latency Durability Everything else is implementation detail.
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Most engineers pick a caching strategy based on what they've used before — not what the system actually needs. 8 strategies. Different tradeoffs. Cache-aside ≠ always the answer. 🧵Which one do you default to ? #DistributedSystems #SystemDesign
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Tier-1 bank: sub-5ms p99 at 1.6M msg/sec with strict ordering intact. The unlock wasn't just tuning. Multi-DC replica placement done right — skip this and tail latency spikes under load. The Practical Stack 👇 thepracticalstack461.substack.com
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