You have a table with 10 million rows.
Your query is taking 8 seconds.
What's the FIRST thing you check?
A) Missing index
B) Query structure(JOINs, subqueries)
C) Run EXPLAIN and read the output
D) Blame the ORM
Drop your debugging process below
When you hit scaling issues,
what do you reach for first?
A) Add more servers (horizontal scale)
B) Optimize the database queries first
C) Add a caching layer (Redis)
D) Check if you even need to scale yet
Most engineers skip D entirely.
What's your honest answer? 👇
25 Networking fundamentals you should know
① Network → devices connected together
② IP Address → device identity on a network
③ MAC Address → hardware identity
④ Router → moves traffic between networks
⑤ Switch → connects devices inside a network
⑥ DNS → converts domain names to IPs
⑦ DHCP → assigns IP addresses automatically
⑧ Subnet → smaller part of a network
⑨ Gateway → exit point to another network
⑩ Firewall → allows or blocks traffic
⑪ Port → entry point for an app/service
⑫ TCP → reliable data delivery
⑬ UDP → faster, less reliable delivery
⑭ HTTP → web communication
⑮ HTTPS → secure web communication
⑯ NAT → private IP to public IP translation
⑰ VPN → secure private connection
⑱ LAN → local network
⑲ WAN → wide area network
⑳ Bandwidth → maximum data capacity
㉑ Latency → delay in communication
㉒ Packet → small unit of data
㉓ Packet Loss → missing data during transfer
㉔ Load Balancer → distributes traffic
㉕ CDN → delivers content faster globally
Networking gets easier when you stop memorizing terms
and start understanding how data moves.
You discover a cron job that runs every minute.
Nobody knows what it does.
Nobody wants to delete it.
It's been running in production for 6 years.
What's your next move?
रामाय रामभद्राय रामचन्द्राय वेधसे।
रघुनाथाय नाथाय सीतायाः पतये नमः॥
मर्यादा पुरुषोत्तम प्रभु श्री राम के अवतरण दिवस, राम नवमी के पावन पर्व की सभी को हार्दिक शुभकामनाएँ।
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