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  • Charity Donation App

    High-volume charity donation platform using Stripe PaymentIntent, internal donation intents, RabbitMQ, reconciliation worker, and Redis stats cache, designed to safely process 10M+ donations in a 3-day event with strong idempotency guarantees.

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  • Cache Strategy in System Design

    An experienced engineer’s walkthrough — who owns the cache, Cache-Aside vs Read/Write-Through vs Write-Behind, layering, and failure modes.

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  • Feed System Basics

    An experienced engineer’s walkthrough — pull vs push vs hybrid, why celebrities break push, and when to use each pattern.

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