Systems Design & Architecture

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

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

The Problem We Were Actually Solving What I quickly realized was that our operators were focusing on the wrong problems. They were obsessed with creating the pe

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 industry spent a decade chasing complexity. The best engineers are now walking it back on purpose. Continue reading on Medium »

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

When you are developing high-performance modules in kernel space, particularly when leveraging modern technologies like eBPF (Extended… Continue reading on Medi

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...

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

The Problem We Were Actually Solving We were facing a complex supply chain problem where multiple vendors needed to be notified in real-time about inventory lev

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...

A tale of memory bugs, brilliant fixes, and why modern C++ feels so much safer Continue reading on Medium »

When you look into the Java standard library (the JDK) or big frameworks like Spring, you quickly notice that very different APIs often… Continue reading on Med

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.

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

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...

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

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

1. [Extreme Performance and Efficiency ]( https://www.effectivecpmnetwork.com/vgi3i4u752?key=3df6d5d8dfc3895c8d33b3ce954045d8 ) C is a compiled language that tr

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...

Understand hardware virtual memory management to optimize address translation and unlock microsecond-level speedups in C++. Continue reading on Towards Dev »

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

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...

You’ve clicked a short link a thousand times. But have you ever wondered what happens in that split second between click and redirect? Continue reading on Mediu

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

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

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...

The first time Carbon compiled my code successfully, I smiled. Continue reading on Medium »