Deep Dive on Redis: Architecture, Data Structures, and Production Usage
“Redis is not just a cache. It’s a data structure server that happens to be…
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Deep Dive on Apache Kafka: A System Design Interview Perspective
“Kafka is not a message queue. It’s a distributed commit log that happens to be…
Deep Dive on API Gateway: A System Design Interview Perspective
“An API Gateway is the front door to your microservices. Every request walks…
Deep Dive on Elasticsearch: A System Design Interview Perspective
“If you’re searching, filtering, or aggregating over large volumes of semi…
REST API Design: Pagination, Versioning, and Best Practices
Every time two systems need to talk, someone has to design the contract between…
Efficient Data Modelling: A Practical Guide for Production Systems
Most engineers learn data modelling backwards. They draw an ER diagram…
Deep Dive on Caching: From Browser to Database
“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and…
System Design Patterns for Scaling Writes
In the companion article on scaling reads, we covered caching, replicas, and…
System Design Patterns for Real-Time Updates at High Traffic
The previous articles in this series covered scaling reads and scaling writes…
System Design Patterns for Managing Long-Running Tasks
Introduction Some operations simply can’t finish in the time a user is willing…
Explaining SAGA Patterns with Examples
In a monolith, placing an order is a single database transaction — deduct…
System Design Patterns for Handling Large Blobs
Introduction Every non-trivial application eventually needs to handle large…
Deep Dive on Consistent Hashing
Every distributed system eventually faces the same problem: you have N servers…
System Design Patterns for Scaling Reads
Most production systems are read-heavy. A typical web application sees 90-9…
Why Exponential Backoff in Rabbitmq or In Event-Driven Systems
Understanding Simple Message Workflow First, lets understand a simple workflow…
How to Implement Exponential Backoff in Rabbitmq Using AMQP in Node.js
Exponential Backoff in Rabbitmq Please make sure to read first, why we need the…
Singleton Pattern with Thread-safe and Reflection-safe
What is a Singleton Pattern Following constraints are applied: Where we can…
Principles of Software Designing
It is very easy to build a software or app. But, it is trickier to have a good…