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Article0 replies3,120 followingPosted 28 Jul 2025, 10:39 UTC148.1K views847 votes

Solving Responsibility Ambiguity with UML Activity Partitions

Stop guessing who owns which task in your process maps. Learn how UML 2.5 Activity Partitions (swimlanes) clarify system responsibilities and handle concurrency.

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Article0 replies3,301 followingPosted 29 Sept 2026, 17:33 UTC107.8K views919 votes

Designing Around Kdeneon's Manifest-Based Plugin Architecture

An architecture note on Kdeneon's manifest-based plugin system: trust boundaries at manifest validation, signature verification checks, rendering fallback behavior, and the failure modes that shape upgrades.

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Article0 replies4,718 followingPosted 12 Mar 2026, 05:17 UTC38.9K views4,734 votes

Scaling Distributed Caches with McRouter: Managing the Thundering Herd and Routing Latency

Learn how to use McRouter to scale distributed Memcached clusters, prevent cache stampedes using leases, and implement consistent hashing for high-read workloads.

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Article0 replies1,146 followingPosted 20 Sept 2026, 02:38 UTC57K views764 votes

Solving High-Concurrency Bottlenecks: Implementing the Fan-Out Pattern for Timeline Delivery

Learn how to implement the Fan-out pattern to solve timeline scalability issues, moving from expensive database joins to pre-computed cached feeds.

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