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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distributed systems
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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 Elasticsearch: A System Design Interview Perspective
“If you’re searching, filtering, or aggregating over large volumes of semi…
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…