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…
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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…
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 Real-Time Updates at High Traffic
The previous articles in this series covered scaling reads and scaling writes…
System Design Patterns for Scaling Writes
In the companion article on scaling reads, we covered caching, replicas, and…
System Design Patterns for Managing Long-Running Tasks
Introduction Some operations simply can’t finish in the time a user is willing…
System Design Patterns for Handling Large Blobs
Introduction Every non-trivial application eventually needs to handle large…
Explaining SAGA Patterns with Examples
In a monolith, placing an order is a single database transaction — deduct…
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…