Systems Design & Architecture

Welcome back, Gophers ❤. If you’ve followed along from our previous dives, you know that building a...

Welcome back, Gophers ❤ In the first part of this series, we mastered the art of creation learning...

Same knowledge. Different frame. Here is the exact difference. Continue reading on Medium »

Not the textbook definition. The three specific architecture decisions I have personally watched fail in slow motion because we ignored… Continue reading on Sta

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

You’re typing in a document. Someone else deletes the sentence you’re writing. Another person edits...

Your feed service was reading at 20ms. Then a celebrity with 2M followers posted. Now you're at 4...

Building apps became easier. Building successful apps did not. Continue reading on Cubed »

The 5-second rule of distributed systems (No, not the food one) Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

We blamed the architecture. The architecture was trying to tell us something we refused to hear. Continue reading on Medium »

I've just published SRP's Vocabulary Problem: Why Every Reformulation Failed. The Single...

The Pentagon is buying defence hardware faster than it can make any of it talk to each other. Sensors, autonomous platforms, edge compute, electronic-warfare pa

Hello everyone, Recently I published on GitHub HedgeDB , my high-perf and persisted Key-Value store. Internally, it uses Direct I/O ( O_DIRECT ) almost everywhe

This article is part of a series on typing in Rust. If you’ve been writing JavaScript, TypeScript, or even Java for a while, you’ve… Continue reading on solo de

This article is part of a series on typing in Rust. If you’ve been writing JavaScript, TypeScript, or even Java for a while, you’ve… Continue reading on solo de

Introduction In modern systems, messaging queues are one of the most essential building...

Side projects are, for me, a space to try new things on one hand, and to solve a problem in my head...

Modern operating system filesystems (like ext4 or NTFS) are intimidating to look at. If you dive into...

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

Building a Public Status Page: What to Show and What to Hide A public status page is one...

A medida que una aplicación de Go crece en complejidad y adopta arquitecturas desacopladas (Clean...

Back when I was developing a manufacturing ERP, the need arose to offer the same software to multiple...

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

Designing a Responsive Browser-Based Ebook Converter Without Melting the Main Thread Have...

Not a flex. A genuine before/after that made me rethink how I write Angular. Continue reading on Medium »

In standard CRUD apps, if a user updates their profile name, you overwrite the database row. No big...

When every developer solves problems differently, the codebase becomes harder to scale than the business itself. Continue reading on Angular Engineering »

In most graph models edges can only be traversed, not queried, so filtering on edge attributes forces a full scan of thousands of relationships—taking seconds.

How each method type shapes your domain logic. Continue reading on Medium »

We were burning 400ms in p99 tail latency on a core event-processing path in Veltrix. The upstream...

Learn how to wire PLC inputs and outputs. Covers sourcing vs sinking, digital and analog I/O, power supply wiring, and best practices for industrial P...

Microservices are often presented as the natural destination for modern software architecture, yet many organizations adopt them before… Continue reading on Med

Building a game for Windows 1.0 and exploring 40 years of compatibility Continue reading on Medium »

Your payment service just charged a customer. It writes to the DB. Now it needs to tell the...

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

Cell-Based Architecture for GDPR, Hybrid Logical Clocks (the poor man's TrueTime), fencing zombie leaders during split-brain, Chaos Engineering in production, a

Most Next.js apps do not become slow because Next.js is slow. Continue reading on Skill Stuff »

You are mid-way through a system design interview, confidently whiteboarding your database...

Responsive UIs for High-Throughput Ebook Converters: Debouncing, Chunking & Web...

Why CRDTs can't handle financial ledgers, how Event Sourcing made auditors thank us for the first time in 10 years, and a Distributed Saga that survived a trans

Learn how to integrate model-based systems engineering (MBSE) with mission-driven requirements to create a connected framework that delivers reliable solutions

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

I've been documenting some thoughts on stream plumbing in embedded systems, based on my own frustrations encountered while interfacing modules on constrained pl

Tree traversal usually gets taught as three separate algorithms to memorize: preorder, inorder,...

— written by a human! Recently at work, I worked on a major project - Multitenancy. Initially, we...

As a developer, you might wonder: "Why can't I just use a highly optimized PostgreSQL or MongoDB...

A practical introduction to phase noise concepts, explaining how oscillator instability affects RF systems and how phase noise is measured, analyzed, and report

This is Part 2 of the Architecture of Chaos series. Start from Part 1 here. ⚠️ Names, companies,...