Systems Design & Architecture

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

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

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 »

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

Part 4 of the 30 Must-Know System Design Concepts. Learn how to handle explosive growth, distribute traffic intelligently, and scale your… Continue reading on M

When people build their first permission system, they often start with roles: admin, regular user, member, guest, super admin. The role… Continue reading on Med

In today’s digital world, businesses are rapidly shifting online, creating a huge demand for skilled web developers. Companies are looking… Continue reading on

Why near-real-time beats real-time — and why YouTube polls instead of opening a million WebSockets. Continue reading on Medium »

Foundational web development practices still shape how websites and web applications perform, protect users and hold up when real-world conditions aren’t ideal.

Sean Klein discusses why "human error" is a dangerous myth in complex systems. Sharing the inside story of Azure’s 2023 global WAN outage, he explains how moder

Scalable data systems stay stateless, cache aggressively, choose consistency trade-offs consciously, decouple with queues, pick the right… Continue reading on M

It was not the technology. It was how we framed the choice before we made it. Continue reading on Stackademic »

Distributed transactions, which involve operations spanning multiple services, present significant challenges in microservices… Continue reading on Medium »

When we talk about design patterns, there are countless options available in software development. However, in modern practice, we rarely… Continue reading on M

Why your app works perfectly in development, then suddenly explodes with hydration errors in production Continue reading on Medium »

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

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

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

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

When we open a webpage, the browser doesn’t immediately show everything. It follows a sequence of steps to turn code into pixels on the… Continue reading on Med

As a Tech Lead overseeing automation operations, the fastest lesson you learn is that scaling RPA has nothing to do with writing faster… Continue reading on Med

A real-world guide to logging: what to log, formats, PID, remote logging, and how it saves hours of debugging and revenue loss Continue reading on Medium »

Imagine programming a software for a dealership. You implement the core functions and data which are necessary for receiving payments… Continue reading on Mediu

This is where junior level developer struggles to choose the loop !!!! Continue reading on Medium »

A deep dive into system design, microservices, databases, RAG pipelines, and Python internals Continue reading on Data Science Collective »

A deep dive into system design, microservices, databases, RAG pipelines, and Python internals Continue reading on Data Science Collective »

When an application tries to update a database and notify a message broker (like Kafka or SQS) in the same API workflow, it introduces a… Continue reading on Me

Performance is one of those topics that every React developer eventually encounters. Continue reading on Medium »

The Paradigm Shift to Distributed Systems Continue reading on Medium »

And most developers haven’t noticed. Continue reading on Medium »

You’ve mastered Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and Clean Architecture. But when the interviewer asks “design a URL shortener” — you blank… Continue reading on Med

Stop hiding behind “microservices are hard” and “distributed systems are inherently chaotic.” Most of your production incidents come from… Continue reading on C

The infrastructure problem nobody trained you for and how five types of builders are solving it. Continue reading on Medium »

The infrastructure problem nobody trained you for and how five types of builders are solving it. Continue reading on Medium »

I have worked for both large tech companies and startups. Two patterns kept showing up across every company I worked at startup and large… Continue reading on M

Shopify Staff Engineer Guilherme Carreiro discusses building and scaling highly customizable platforms. Using Shopify’s Liquid theme system as a case study, he

One of the biggest mindset shifts in frontend engineering happens when you realise that not all state is the same. Continue reading on Medium »

Service designers love the language of systems. We map complexity. We expose dependencies. We identify breakdowns between people… Continue reading on Medium »

With over two decades of experience in solution architecture, including roles as a Founder, Technical Co-owner, and Data Algorithm… Continue reading on Medium »

Nos últimos anos, trabalhei com arquiteturas frontend em diferentes escalas — desde projetos pequenos com um punhado de componentes até… Continue reading on Med

Distributed Systems are a trap if you aren’t at the scale of Netflix, and here is how to stop the bleeding before your infrastructure… Continue reading on Stack

1. Intent of Singleton Continue reading on Medium »

Why frontend developers must master system design, architecture, and engineering judgment in the age of AI. Continue reading on Medium »

Modern web development has evolved rapidly over the last few years. Businesses now expect websites and applications to be faster, scalable… Continue reading on

If you look up the Singleton pattern in software engineering forums, you will likely stumble upon a fierce, ongoing debate. Critics will… Continue reading on Me

If you look up the Singleton pattern in software engineering forums, you will likely stumble upon a fierce, ongoing debate. Critics will… Continue reading on Me

Modern systems no longer fail because databases are slow. Continue reading on Medium »

When people think about working in a CRM, they usually think about features such as, form, dashboards, workflows. Continue reading on Medium »