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 API Gateway: A System Design Interview Perspective
“An API Gateway is the front door to your microservices. Every request walks…
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 Scaling Reads
Most production systems are read-heavy. A typical web application sees 90-9…