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Deep-dive cheat sheets on the internals that actually cause production incidents — GC tuning, distributed systems, and the stuff that only shows up under load. New ones ship regularly.

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Java Collections — Senior Interview Field Reference

HashMap internals, treeification, concurrent collections, and the traps that come up in senior and principal engineering interviews.

JVM Garbage Collection — Field Reference

SATB queue overflows, ZGC memory bloat, humongous allocation stalls, Metaspace leaks, and the reference-processing bottleneck that kills high-throughput caches.