EP206: Git Workflow: Essential Commands

A newsletter covering several system design topics. The main technical piece explains Git's core workflow by mapping essential commands to the four areas of code storage: working directory, staging area, local repo, and remote repo. Commands covered include git add, commit, push, clone, checkout, fetch, merge, pull, stash, and stash pop. Additional sections cover four common cache failure patterns (thunder herd, cache penetration, cache breakdown, cache crash) with mitigation strategies, an overview of six common cyber attacks (phishing, ransomware, MitM, SQL injection, XSS, zero-day), and a comparison of auto-regressive vs. diffusion image generation models.