Technical Insights & Architecture Papers
Deep-dives on high-throughput backend architecture, Python & Django performance, real-time Voice AI, and resilient database modeling.
Distributed Rate Limiting: Token Bucket vs. Sliding Window Counter in Redis
Simple fixed-window rate limiters permit double the allowed traffic bursts at window boundaries, leading to API quota exhaustion and backend overload. Explore the mathematics and atomic Redis Lua implementation of Sliding Window rate limiting.
Taming Redis & Celery in Production: Memory Limits, Worker Pools & Dead-Letter Queues
Preventing background worker crashes and memory exhaustion in Celery and Redis: memory eviction policies, worker pool sizing, task timeouts, and dead-letter queues.