Leon Yen

Solutions Content Writer

Leon Yen is a technical writer and technology journalist covering AI, data science, and enterprise technology. His work has appeared in TechRepublic, CNET, Big Think, and Datamation. Before Aerospike, he led AI documentation efforts at Contextual AI (now part of Google DeepMind) and Kumo AI (acquired by NVIDIA). He is based in San Francisco, California.

Sep 28, 2026
Backoff and jitter aren’t enough when overload control meets the database
Sep 22, 2026
When a high-throughput transactional system like Redis approaches its limits
Sep 14, 2026
Aerospike RF2 self-healing vs. Redis Cluster failover: What happens after the node dies
Aug 26, 2026
How higher core counts expose the limitations of process-per-core database scaling
Jul 21, 2026
KV cache tiering: Why GPU memory alone won't scale your LLM app
Aug 3, 2026
Operational and still failing: How healthy dashboards hide system degradation

Leon Yen

Backoff and jitter aren’t enough when overload control meets the database

When a high-throughput transactional system like Redis approaches its limits

Aerospike RF2 self-healing vs. Redis Cluster failover: What happens after the node dies

How higher core counts expose the limitations of process-per-core database scaling

KV cache tiering: Why GPU memory alone won't scale your LLM app

Operational and still failing: How healthy dashboards hide system degradation