Systems Design & Architecture

The trade-offs behind the hype — and the metric that makes the monolith look smart. Continue reading on Medium »

The Engineering Challenge of Temporary Venues Deploying large-scale networking infrastructure in permanent buildings is straightforward. However, deploying Radi

Topology rewrite not bug repair. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Beyond Writing Code: What Building O’Ben Brands Taught Me About Engineering Real Systems Continue reading on Medium »

Geospatial Indexing: How Uber Finds the Nearest Driver Among Millions in...

Stop modeling API responses with nullable fields and boolean flags. Discriminated unions turn runtime errors into compile-time guarantees.

Topology rewrite not bug repair. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

When I first started building signal-kernel, I thought I was simply writing a signal library—a...

I Built a B-Tree in Pure Python and Finally Understood Why Postgres Uses It for Every...

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Temporal has emerged as a powerful workflow orchestration engine that helps developers build...

Java Collections Framework: Everything You Need to Know in One Place Continue reading on Medium »

Part 2 of the 30 Must-Know System Design Concepts. Master how applications exchange data and choose the right communication pattern Continue reading on Medium »

Concurrency is byproduct of capability design not bottleneck to patch. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Most Next.js projects do not become messy because Next.js is complicated. Continue reading on Medium »

This is Part 3 of my series building Loom. 👉 Missed Part 2? Read it here Today: Building the...

Concurrency is byproduct of capability design not bottleneck to patch. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Topology rewrite not bug repair. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Topology rewrite not bug repair. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

TimingLyzer Static timing analysis visualizer. A static timing analysis visualizer built...

Go Bulkhead Pattern — Complete Reference Table of Contents What is the...

Explained Like You Are On The Whiteboard Continue reading on BecomeBetter.Dev »

Explained Like You Are On The Whiteboard Continue reading on BecomeBetter.Dev »

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” — Martin Fowler Continue reading on CodeX »

As applications grow, one of the biggest architectural decisions is whether to keep everything in a...

Topology rewrite not bug repair. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

What I'd push back on is the framing that MCP is simply the more "modern" or "mature" approach, and function calling is legacy. MCP's model autonomy is genuinel

As organizations grow globally, enterprise systems become increasingly complex. Continue reading on Medium »

Many developers learn programming by focusing on functions, classes, frameworks, and algorithms....

The problem I kept running into Every time I practiced system design, I'd hit the same...

Topology rewrite not bug repair. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Introduction If you have been building applications using Vite and standard React for the...

Behind every individual achievement, there is a system. Continue reading on Medium »

In System Design, there is rarely a "perfect" solution. Every architecture decision involves...

I Built a Consistent Hashing Ring in Pure Python and Finally Understood How Cassandra...

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

When I started building Levelo JS, one of the most interesting challenges was creating a reactive...

I learned this the annoying way: admin panels are not configuration systems. They can become one,...

When familiar abstractions add complexity instead of solving real problems Continue reading on CodeX »

Architecture preempts the experiment. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

Why distributed systems fail in ways your laptop never taught you !! Continue reading on Heap & Wire »

Concurrency is byproduct of capability design not bottleneck to patch. A single line. Hold it. More as the build matures. — chiefmojo79

A few years ago, I walked into a system design interview feeling invincible. Continue reading on Medium »