Autopsy of a Hybrid Architecture (1/4): The Illusion of Non-Blocking & Thread Starvation
When 5% CPU utilization meets 503 Service Unavailable. Dissecting the cost of waiting and the quantitative failure of hybrid execution models.
Concurrency
Autopsy of Distributed Systems (2/4): The Concurrency Collapse & Reactive Starvation
Asynchronous frameworks do not eliminate latency; they merely shift the bottleneck. We dissect how a single blocking I/O call inside a reactive pipeline can trigger a catastrophic thread starvation event.
From Contention to Throughput (2/5): Turning PostgreSQL into a Lock-Free Queue — The SKIP LOCKED Pattern
How to resolve massive database lock contention without deploying Kafka. We explore Quantitative Capacity, the Law of Non-Blocking Acquisition, and the SKIP LOCKED paradigm.