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Naveen Metta

Naveen Metta

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Jun 29

The Scariest Outages Don’t Come From Bugs. They Come From Correlated Failures.

At 2:17 PM on a Tuesday, our entire platform started behaving strangely.

The Scariest Outages Don’t Come From Bugs. They Come From Correlated Failures.

Naveen Metta

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Jun 28

The Feature That Took Down Our Entire Platform Was “Retry”

Why staff engineers are obsessed with retry budgets, and why most systems get retries dangerously wrong

The Feature That Took Down Our Entire Platform Was “Retry”

Naveen Metta

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Jun 27

Your Latency Metrics Are Probably Lying to You

The distributed systems problem that silently hides production outages

Your Latency Metrics Are Probably Lying to You

Naveen Metta

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Jun 26

The Day a Single Cache Miss Took Down Our Entire System

Most production outages do not begin with a database crash.

The Day a Single Cache Miss Took Down Our Entire System

Naveen Metta

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Jun 20

The Kafka Incident That Added 20 Minutes of Latency Without Breaking Anything

One afternoon, we started receiving complaints from customers that event processing was taking much longer than usual.

The Kafka Incident That Added 20 Minutes of Latency Without Breaking Anything

Naveen Metta

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Jan 4

We Chose MongoDB. 18 Months Later, We’re Migrating Everything to PostgreSQL

A real-world story of why flexibility helped us start fast, but structure helped us scale safely.

We Chose MongoDB. 18 Months Later, We’re Migrating Everything to PostgreSQL

Naveen Metta

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Jan 3

Why I Stopped Using Microservices for Everything (and You Should Too)

How switching back to simpler architecture saved me time, money, and sleepless nights

Why I Stopped Using Microservices for Everything (and You Should Too)

Naveen Metta

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Jan 2

The Day Our Cache Became Our Single Point of Failure: A Postmortem

When Speed Turned Into Risk: Lessons From a Cache Outage

The Day Our Cache Became Our Single Point of Failure: A Postmortem

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CodeX

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Naveen Metta

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Oct 21, 2025

From 60 Seconds to 5: How I Made Our Spring Boot App Start Super Fast

From a long coffee break to a quick refresh, here is a step-by-step guide to making your Java application launch in a blink.

From 60 Seconds to 5: How I Made Our Spring Boot App Start Super Fast

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Dev Genius

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Naveen Metta

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Oct 4, 2025

Mastering Spring Cloud Gateway: Advanced Routing, Filters, and Resilience

Build robust API gateways with advanced routing patterns, custom filters, and bulletproof resilience strategies explained in plain English

Mastering Spring Cloud Gateway: Advanced Routing, Filters, and Resilience

Naveen Metta

Naveen Metta

I'm a Full Stack Developer with 4+ years of experience. feel free to reach out for any help : mettanaveen701@gmail.com

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