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3 posts6–Jul 12, 2026
Netflix's Data Canary: Validating Catalog Metadata at Scale
After an outage caused by corrupted data rather than code, Netflix built a production-traffic data canary system that detects catalog issues within 10 minutes.
netflixdata-engineeringreliabilitychaos-engineeringCache invalidation: solving stale data and stampede problems
An engineering look at TTL, event-based invalidation, versioning and single-flight patterns, and how cache stampede can take down your origin in production.
cachingdistributed-systemsredisbackendHow Airbnb Broke Circular Dependencies in Its Observability Stack
Airbnb engineers explain how they eliminated circular dependencies in their metrics pipeline using dedicated Kubernetes clusters and a custom Envoy-based networking layer.
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