Systems Design & Architecture

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

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

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

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 »

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 +...

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

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...

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

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.

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

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...

The system-level failure patterns most backend engineers don’t learn until they have to. Continue reading on Stackademic »

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

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

Let’s take an example of a Function. If we have a function which accepts a variable but the type of that variable 퐜퐨퐮퐥퐝 퐛퐞 퐚… Continue reading on Medium »

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...

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

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...

A technical devlog on grid placement, multiplayer architecture, and data-oriented simulation design. Continue reading on Medium »

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

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

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

Every candidate draws boxes and arrows. The ones who get offers explain why the boxes are where they are. 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 »

If you have been writing Verilog for a while, you have probably caught yourself copying and pasting the same chunk of logic over and over… Continue reading on M

Introduction Continue reading on Medium »