The Thundering Herd Problem in Distributed Systems→
Three ways a thundering herd shows up in production — retry storms, cache stampedes, and planned traffic spikes — and how the industry actually deals with each ...
hovanhoa · blog
Writing.
Notes on software engineering, distributed systems, and lessons from building things — with the occasional life update in between.
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Building an AI agent in Go→
What an AI agent actually is once you strip away the hype — a model, a set of tools, and a loop. I build a small tool-calling agent in Go from scratch.
February 18, 2025testing
Load Testing with K6→
How I used k6 to measure and validate response-time improvements after optimizing our product search engine.
December 1, 2024ci-cd
Jenkins Pipeline - Getting Started→
A practical walkthrough of CI/CD fundamentals and how to set up a Jenkins pipeline that deploys to AWS EC2.