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How backend infrastructure actually behaves in production — Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes — explained one layer at a time, the way I’d teach it.
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Redis Mind Map: A Complete Mental Model of Redis Architecture
Learn Redis architecture with a complete beginner-friendly mental model covering event loop, replication, Redis Cluster, sharding, persistence, failover, Pub/Sub, Streams, and scaling in production systems.
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30 May 2026Redis Mind Map: A Complete Mental Model of Redis ArchitectureLearn Redis architecture with a complete beginner-friendly mental model covering event loop, replication, Redis Cluster, sharding, persistence, failover, Pub/Sub, Streams, and scaling in production systems.6 min readRedis · Mind Maps30 May 2026Kafka Mind Map: A Complete Mental Model of Kafka ArchitectureLearn Kafka with a simple production-focused mental model. Understand Kafka clusters, brokers, topics, partitions, producers, consumers, consumer groups, offsets, retries, DLQ, replication, and how real production systems scale using Apache Kafka.5 min readKafka · mind map10 May 2026Kubernetes + ArgoCD: A Full-System Mental Model (From Git Push to Serving Traffic)A practical, layered mental model of production Kubernetes with ArgoCD GitOps — from cluster internals to ingress, secrets, DNS, security, scaling, and the full deploy-to-traffic flow.7 min readKubernetes · ArgoCD · GitOps · EKS · DevOps · Platform Engineering