One Bad Request Crashed Everyone: Processes vs Threads

How each one works, where each one bites, and which one to pick.

1. The problem: doing many things at once
2. What a process is
3. What a thread is
4. The cost: creating and switching
5. How they talk to each other
6. The trap: race conditions
7. The fixes, and the next trap
8. Crash isolation: the Chrome story
9. CPU-bound vs I/O-bound, and the Python twist
10. How real systems mix both
11. The decision guide

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System DesignMicroservices

Monolith vs Microservices: Stop Starting With Microservices

From a simple monolith to a distributed system, and the exact problem that forces each step.

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