distributed-systems
Scaling Myths That Mislead Developers
WHY COMMON ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT SCALING LEAD TO FRAGILEÂ SYSTEMS Scaling is often seen as a technical problem. More users arrive, and the system needs to handle i...
Tag: distributed-systems
9 articles about distributed-systems
system-design-concepts
Observability: You Canât Fix What You Canât See
UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM BEHAVIOR BEYOND LOGS AND DASHBOARDS In previous parts, we explored how systems fail under load and how design decisions influence performa...
design
The Hidden Cost of Synchronous Systems
WHY WAITING FOR EVERY STEP TO FINISH CAN QUIETLY SLOW DOWN YOUR ENTIREÂ BACKEND In previous parts, we explored how system design choices affect performance. On...
scalability
Designing Systems That Donât Collapse Under Pressure
HOW TO BUILD BACKEND SYSTEMS THAT CONTINUE TO WORK EVEN WHEN THINGS GOÂ WRONG In earlier parts [https://medium.com/@akshatjme/list/the-hidden-reasons-your-backe...
distributed-systems
Unique ID generatorâââTwitter snow flake design
DESIGN In large distributed systems, something that looks simple on the surface â generating a unique ID â becomes surprisingly hard. When millions of users are...
design
Strategies to Scale Database Writes
In the previous article [https://medium.com/@akshatjme/5671a7ac80e1], we saw how to scale reads by reducing the amount of work the database has to do for every...
system-design-concepts
Strategies to Scale Database Reads
Learn how to scale database reads as traffic grows through replicas, caching, materialized views, denormalization, and other proven techniques that reduce repeated work.
blockchain
How Blockchain Works
A plainâEnglish guide to blockchain: shared ledgers, blocks and hashes, cryptographic integrity, and how consensus keeps many untrusted nodes in sync.
system-design
System Design: Building a Notification Service
Designing a scalable notification system with queues, retries, idempotency, and user preferences.