Systems Design & Architecture

Prologue A while ago, I decided to develop a fully accessible main navigation component in React and...

The Problem We Were Actually Solving Hytales treasure-hunt system is a micro-game that can...

How to allocate a 9-pin connector across 6 swappable modules for fleet, cold chain, security, and e-vehicle tracking.

The programming language ecosystem evolves quickly, but occasionally a new project appears with a...

While debugging my first software system, I kept running into the same problem: I could see failures...

The Denormalized Product Tree: Initial Relief, Later a Deep Pit While working on a...

How a generateCode() function in our docs told users to import from a subpath that was never in the package — and why we still ship one entry point.

You Don't Need Microservices (Yet): A Reality Check for Devs How Premature...

You didn't realize it, but the last time you built a Jira workflow, you wrote a program. A bad one,...

The Problem We Were Actually Solving We needed a high-performance system to index and...

Disclaimer Este texto foi inicialmente concebido pela IA Generativa em função da...

I failed three system design interviews in a row. Not because I didn't know the concepts. I knew...

I built a public showcase page on top of ElumKit v0.1 this week. Twenty-two components carried everything I needed except one. Notes on what landed cleanly and

The Problem We Were Actually Solving At its core, the Treasure Hunt Engine is a...

Who's the Boss? Navigating the Tricky World of Leader Election Patterns Ever been in a...

12.6.0 Before We Begin In Chapter 12, we will build a real project: a command-line...

Why Rust Is Becoming the Backbone of Modern Operating Systems — From Linux to Windows...

Lesson 3 of Build a Twitter Clone - A Practical Guide to Software Modelling In Lesson 2,...

The Problem We Were Actually Solving At its core, our Treasure Hunt Engine is a web-based...

The Problem We Were Actually Solving When we first launched Veltrix, our primary goal was...

The Problem We Were Actually Solving We thought we were optimizing for raw performance,...

The Problem We Were Actually Solving As it turns out, we weren't really solving the...

The Problem We Were Actually Solving In that moment, I realized that our configuration...

The Problem We Were Actually Solving Lately, our search results had been suffering from an...

The Problem We Were Actually Solving Treasure Hunt Engine was built to handle massive...

The Problem We Were Actually Solving In our case, the problem wasn't just about serving a...

The Problem We Were Actually Solving At the time, we were trying to optimize our server...

A backend engineer's short, honest take on Domain-Driven Design — what it is, why I dismissed it, and the project that changed my mind.

Official process: Create request Manager approval System update Done Real process: Someone messages...

The Problem We Were Actually Solving The real problem we were trying to solve with the...

A practical checklist for scoping web applications around states, permissions, exceptions, and delivery risk.

When building distributed systems, we often unknowingly find ourselves pushed towards an "eventual...

In this tutorial, we’ll build an Excalidraw-style collaborative whiteboard using Next.js, HTML5...

I've been doing system design interviews for years - both as a candidate and as an interviewer. The...

For a long time, I thought a CMS was primarily about managing...

Six months ago, I started building TaterTOS64, an x86_64 kernel. As any systems dev knows, once you...

I have been building a visual breakdown of the OSI Model and what actually happens when data...

In today’s fast-paced engineering and manufacturing world, precision is everything. Whether you're...

Living Systems as the Benchmark for Scalable, Resilient, and Self-Learning...

Recently, I ran an experiment across several of the projects I’ve been building. The focus of that...

title: "Welcome to the Distributed Systems World — The Challenges Nobody Warned You About" published:...

This is Part 2 of the Core Rust Concepts series. If you haven't read Part 1, start there — it covers...

The Go scheduler is one of the most sophisticated pieces of the runtime. It manages thousands of...

1. The Origin of the Dual-Thread Architecture When WeChat first introduced Mini Programs...

Most codebases don't have accurate architecture documentation. Either it was never created, or it...

Building a great product often means scaling your internal tooling. But as a company grows, a common...

Comment DDD, l'architecture hexagonale et Spring Modulith te permettent d'utiliser Claude,...