Couple of years back I wrote a post describing the thundering herd problem. Now that I look back, I had very cursory knowledge about the problem. I knew what it was & how can it impact an application. I knew a possible solution that can be used to solve the problem. But these were individual pieces of information. There was nothing connecting them to give me an end to end view & that was primarily because I had neither seen the problem nor the solution in action. I knew the fundamental blocks...
