A personal digital garden of notes, half-formed ideas, and things I'm learning.https://garden.itsbaam.com/https://garden.itsbaam.com/welcome/https://garden.itsbaam.com/welcome/What this digital garden is and how to wander it.Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://garden.itsbaam.com/spaced-repetition/https://garden.itsbaam.com/spaced-repetition/Reviewing material at increasing intervals to fight forgetting.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://garden.itsbaam.com/cpu-vs-io-bounded/https://garden.itsbaam.com/cpu-vs-io-bounded/Whether your program spends its time computing or waiting decides your concurrency model - and quietly picks the language that will feel effortless.Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://garden.itsbaam.com/rate-limiting/https://garden.itsbaam.com/rate-limiting/A rate limit reads like a restriction from outside and like a promise from inside - the invariant that keeps a system in a regime where it still works.Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://garden.itsbaam.com/queues-are-everywhere/https://garden.itsbaam.com/queues-are-everywhere/A queue decouples a producer from a consumer so they need not move at the same speed. Most of the queues in a system are the ones nobody drew on the diagram.Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://garden.itsbaam.com/retries-and-idempotency/https://garden.itsbaam.com/retries-and-idempotency/Retries are only safe when the operation is idempotent - otherwise you get duplicate records or double charges.Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://garden.itsbaam.com/why-apis-break/https://garden.itsbaam.com/why-apis-break/Breaking changes usually trace back to versioning, contracts, and team coordination - not just code.Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://garden.itsbaam.com/caching-isnt-cheating/https://garden.itsbaam.com/caching-isnt-cheating/Caching gets dismissed as a hack, but it is one of the oldest principled moves in computing - spending space, and a little staleness, to buy time.Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://garden.itsbaam.com/tail-latency/https://garden.itsbaam.com/tail-latency/The average request looks fine while the slowest one percent decides your reputation. Why tails happen, and how to defend them.Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://garden.itsbaam.com/latency-vs-throughput-vs-iops/https://garden.itsbaam.com/latency-vs-throughput-vs-iops/Three performance numbers people blur together - and how the workload decides which one you should be optimizing.Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT