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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February 16, 2026life
2025 Rewind→
A quiet reflection on a year of change — switching companies, traveling almost every month, and learning to keep going.
January 17, 2025life
Looking back on 2024→
A personal reflection on a difficult year of change, self-doubt, learning, and slowly finding direction again.
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.
Concurrency in Golang→
A practical introduction to Go concurrency concepts, including goroutines, channels, select, and wait groups.