Systems Design & Architecture

I’ve spent way too many late nights arguing about whether a "legacy" monolith is actually the problem...

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

mintOS Developer Handbook Table of Contents Boot Process Screen Driver ...

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...

Boost database performance with Rust and distributed architecture

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

MVC is the first thing anyone learns about Rails and the last thing people actually get right. The...

1. The Core Problem - Why Virtual Memory Exists Without virtual memory, every program...

When I encounter a system or data design decision I'm unsure about, I endeavor to ask the same thing:...

Originally published at malaymehta.com The Interview Trap If you look at most system...

Overview In Week 4, I focused on a topic that every distributed system eventually...

Throughout my career, transitioning between CTO roles and, more recently, focusing purely on...

A systems architectural analysis of Write-Ahead Logs, Sorted String Tables, Bloom filters, and LSM-tree compaction strategies.

Long-running workflows look simple when you first build them. Something happens. A few systems...

Most dashboards answer one question: Is everything okay? During an incident, nobody's asking...

TypeScript has become the standard for building scalable frontend applications. While most developers...

Two Tables, One URL: Solving Inertia.js State Collisions If you've worked with Inertia.js...

Today, June 22, 2026 (wait it's past midnight I mean yesterday), I finally published my first crate...

What started as a deep-dive challenge into the mechanics of computer science ended up as a fully...

What is a proxy? A proxy is an intermediary server that receives a request, forwards it elsewhere,...

Good architecture is not only about how a system is built. It is also about how well the team can...

Workflow Isolation: Building In-Process Actors in .NET Without Frameworks Example code for the...

After writing about metadata in object storage systems, I kept coming back to the same question: If...

Master Astro's Islands pattern to ship less JavaScript, improve Core Web Vitals, and keep your site blazing fast.

graphlens: turn any repo into one typed graph — across Python, TypeScript, Go and...

The Quest Begins (The "Why") I was knee‑deep in a side‑project that needed a global rate...

Modern SaaS platforms rely on real‑time data processing, automation, and integrations with external...

Consistent Hashing Explained: The Smart Way to Scale Distributed Systems Most system...

Setting up a scalable backend application requires a clear separation of concerns. While FastAPI...

Most backend systems look simple, until they don't. A single server, a database, with requests coming...

Reflecting on two major technical challenges from my backend engineering internship, focusing on...

Tag your union, switch on the discriminant, and let assertNever turn a forgotten variant into a compile error instead of a 2am page.

Plain-struct domain events, an in-process dispatcher, and a transactional outbox. No event bus library, no message broker required.

A repository is a domain port, not an ORM wrapper. Keep SQL at the edge with sqlc and pgx, map rows to aggregates, and keep the core clean.

A step-by-step guide to prepare for System Design Interviews for FAANG and non-FAANG companies

This morning I was working on a design document. The task was clear: build a self-check mechanism...

Next.js route groups, parallel routes, and intercepting routes: advanced routing...

In this article, we will explore how to coordinate distributed transactions in Go using the Saga...

Database design for application developers: a practical guide Good database design is the...

The Great Showdown: Scalability vs. Performance - Which One Reigns Supreme? Ever felt like...

In 2025 we inherited the public facing search index for Hytales treasure hunt system. The index...

The Problem We Were Actually Solving We werent just chasing p99 latency; we were solving a...

The Problem We Were Actually Solving I still remember the day our treasure hunt engine...

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...

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

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