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System Design Building Blocks: A Decision Map, Not a Parts List (2026)

System design building blocks explained as a decision map — the five questions that pick your components (architecture style, cache, message broker, database, load balancer) and how each block earns its place.

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BeginnerCaching Strategies: Why Invalidation Is the Hard Part (2026)Caching strategies in 2026 — the patterns (cache-aside, write-through, write-behind), eviction policies, and why cache invalidation, not adding a cache, is the genuinely hard part.7 min

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