Systems Design & Architecture

If you have ever opened a system design article, seen a diagram with twelve boxes, three databases, a...

Most Next.js tutorials show you how to start a project. None of them show you how to organize one...

In this article, we’ll build a simple lexer in Go and understand how source code is converted into tokens. Continue reading on Medium »

Visitor registration in our ERP was not just a simple operation. Whenever a visitor registered for a premium exhibition five things needed… Continue reading on

Abstract Distributed financial systems are described through code, architecture diagrams,...

If you can write class Dog extends Animal in an exam that gives the correct answer at the end, you’ve passed. Continue reading on Medium »

I got a comment on the last post that I want to answer properly, because it gets at the real...

Have you ever encountered a message like this while using an application? "Too Many Requests....

One of the biggest realizations I’ve had while building KiwiEngine is that architecture doesn’t...

My dashboard had a useMemo doing arithmetic it had no business doing. It was a Pokémon TCG Pocket...

Modern applications rarely fail because of a lack of features. They fail because they cannot keep up with growth. Continue reading on AlgoMart »

The second word a professor handed me — orthogonal — and how learning to cut a problem into independent pieces stuck with me.

i did something dumb last month. on purpose. i sat down, opened a next.js app, and tried to make...

Mercury takes 59 Earth days to spin once on its axis and 88 Earth days to orbit the Sun. Work out the...

Live cursors, presence, shared state, and room-based events are not just UI features. They are distributed systems problems wrapped inside… Continue reading on

Stop treating mutexes as an afterthought — your production service’s correctness depends on them Continue reading on Medium »

The singleton is one of the first design patterns most programmers learn, and one of the first they reach for out of habit. The idea is… Continue reading on Sta

An orchestra needs a conductor; a dance troupe doesn't. Most distributed workflows need both — and...

A working definition for a discipline that didn’t have a name until now. Continue reading on Medium »

When you start learning object-oriented programming, three concepts show up very early: Continue reading on Medium »

Circuit breakers protect Spring Boot services from sending every request into a dependency that is already failing, slow, or overloaded… Continue reading on Med

The systems engineer who fully owns the operational outcome: the security, the compliance, the resilience, the mission, is what we call a mission operator.

As these systems become more complex, innovation must be less fragmented than it is today. This is the missing middle.​

Let’s be honest, the tech we use today is amazing, but it can also be complex. It’s only natural that teams want to build platforms that hide this complexity to

In this episode, Heroku co-founder and Ink & Switch founder Adam Wiggins argues for a 'local-first' architecture that reconciles cloud-based collaboration with

A diagnostic for architecture reviews, postmortems, and late-night production incidents. Continue reading on Medium »

As I continue studying Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann, I've reached one of the most fascinating topics in… Continue reading on Medium

Design patterns are not interview decoration. They are the invisible habits that keep real codebases from turning into expensive confusion. Continue reading on

I want to talk about why philosophy is actually far more important than people think, especially when it comes to software engineering, systems design, and AI.

The article examines Linux's io_uring interface from a systems engineering perspective, explaining how shared ring buffers, SQPOLL, multishot operations, and li

Before you build anything serious, you need to understand how it is structured. This is the thinking behind every great system ever built. Continue reading on M

An FDE, or Forward Deployed Engineer, is best understood through a system design problem where the product cannot succeed by being… Continue reading on Medium »

A practical look at where Zig fits in modern systems programming Continue reading on Stackademic »

I’m studying object-oriented programming and UML class diagrams, and I have a doubt about composition. Suppose I’m modeling a simple social network with these c

Hello! I am studying object-oriented programming and have a question about choosing which class to assign a method to. Let’s assume we are modeling a small soci

When developers first learn Redux, handling API calls seems straightforward. Continue reading on Medium »

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A user clicks "Place Order" on a flaky cellular connection. The request times out at five seconds....

React Server Components confused a lot of people, and most of the confusion comes from...

The hidden cost of “user-friendly” tech, and what happens when you finally claim root access to your digital life. Continue reading on Medium »

There's a particular kind of bug I've learned to be afraid of. It doesn't throw an exception. It...

Most tutorials tell you to start with a monolith. Here's why InternFlow went the other way — and what...

A few months ago I decided to build a Linux distribution entirely from scratch using LFS (Linux From...

Boost database performance with Rust and distributed architecture

Writing regular expressions without instant visual feedback is like writing code without a compiler —...

Proven architectural patterns that scale from prototype to production using React, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL.

Your API just shipped a breaking change. /users now returns fullName instead of first_name +...

This article argues that reliable event-driven systems should be designed for replayability as well as uptime. It introduces the concept of Recovery Contracts,