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YouHow should we handle a sudden spike in orders?
CoachA queue can absorb the burst. Let’s discuss latency and failure handling before we update the canvas.
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The URL shortener with a payload: the same id generation and cache-first read path, but the value is kilobytes of text, so it moves out of the database and into object storage.