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Deep dives into system architecture, scalability, and performance. Written by engineers, for engineers.
Forget user count — real scale is measured in RPS, P99 latency, and throughput. Walk through the 5 architectural stages every system passes through, from a single optimized server all the way to sharding.
Deconstruct Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance. Learn why real distributed systems choose between CP and AP during network cuts, and how PACELC governs normal execution latency.
Trace Discord's architecture evolution from a single MongoDB replica set to Apache Cassandra, and finally to C++ ScyllaDB and Rust data buffering services.
Compare traditional AMQP message queues against distributed log commit streams. Learn when to pick RabbitMQ for complex routing vs Kafka for high-throughput event replay.
A repeatable 5-step blueprint to crush FAANG system design interviews: Requirements, Napkin Math Estimation, High-Level Design, Data Modeling, and Bottleneck Deep Dives.
One primary, fifty replicas, millions of queries per second. How OpenAI pushed plain PostgreSQL to absurd scale — and the five habits worth stealing.