Track
Systems Performance & Reliability
Latency, throughput, profiling, SLOs — making systems fast and keeping them up.
- 01
What is the CAP Theorem
A distributed system is like a library with two branches in a storm: when the phone line between them cuts out, you must choose whether to give customers a possibly stale answer or no answer at all.
- 02
Why is ThreadPool better than Threads in Java
A thread pool is a taxi dispatch centre: a fixed fleet of cabs waits for fares instead of a new cab being manufactured and scrapped for every single ride. You pay the manufacturing cost once, then reuse.