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Redis Lists Are Lying to You: The Internal Datastructures Architects Must Understand

How Redis actually stores lists under the hood (linked list vs. ziplist vs. quicklist) and why this low-level choice breaks production systems when architects ignore it.

#caching#data-structures#redis

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The Unkillable Giant: Why B-Trees Still Run Your Databases

How a 1970s data structure continues to dominate MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite despite newer alternatives, and why LSM-trees haven’t killed them.

#data-structures#databases#storage-engines