#system-design (177)

12 blogs • 92 notes • 73 videos

2026

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Sep 01

VIDEO Consistent Hashing: Demystifying the Algorithm and Its Simple Implementation

Distributed Systems #consistent-hashing #distributed-systems #system-design
Aug 30

VIDEO Bitcask Explained: A Log-Structured, Fast Key-Value Store

Databases #bitcask #key-value-store #embedded-database
Jun 18

NOTE Design Document Gaps Foster Engineer Decision-Making and Issue Discovery

Leadership #leadership #design-docs #engineer-empowerment
Jun 07

VIDEO Implementing Redis-Style Transactions in a Custom Database (DiceDB)

Databases #redis #transactions #database-internals
May 20

BLOG Temporal Primer - Building Long-Running Systems

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #ai-agents #career-growth
May 09

VIDEO Implementing Command Pipelining in Redis: A Deep Dive into Internals

Systems Internals #redis #pipelining #network-optimization
Mar 19

VIDEO Low-Level Design and Data Schema Modeling of API Clients like Requestly

Systems Internals #api-client #requestly #low-level-design
Mar 09

NOTE Clarity is the difference between a good design doc

Career Growth #career-growth #clear-communication #communication
Mar 08

BLOG Databases Were Not Designed For This

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #ai-agents #caching

2025

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Nov 26

BLOG The Q, K, V Matrices

AI Systems #ai-systems #llms #system-design
Nov 22

BLOG How LLM Inference Works

AI Systems #ai-systems #llm-inference #llms
Sep 24

BLOG Why gRPC Uses HTTP2

Systems Internals #systems-internals #networking #system-design
Sep 18

NOTE Growth Isn't About Doing Everything

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #system-design
Sep 03

BLOG Why Eventual Consistency is Preferred in Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #consistency #networking
Aug 02

VIDEO How PayPal's Braintree Solved the Thundering Herd Problem and Simplified Architecture

Distributed Systems #thundering-herd #distributed-systems #microservices
Jul 11

VIDEO Inside Stripe's Multi-Tier Rate Limiter Architecture

Distributed Systems #rate-limiting #distributed-systems #system-design
Jun 27

NOTE Writing a Design Document Improves Project Ideas

Career Growth #career-growth #design-document #project-idea
Feb 09

VIDEO How Atlassian Reduced Latency by 70% Using the Sidecar Pattern

Distributed Systems #sidecar-pattern #distributed-systems #microservices
Jan 31

NOTE Should you learn sharding and partitioning if we already have

Distributed Systems #system-design
Jan 25

NOTE YAGNI is my favorite principle when I build and implement any system

Distributed Systems #system-design
Jan 19

VIDEO Trello's Migration from RabbitMQ to Kafka for Real-time WebSocket Updates

Distributed Systems #trello #rabbitmq #kafka
Jan 05

VIDEO Load Balancers Are Not Magic: Dissecting the Atlassian Outage

Distributed Systems #load-balancer #atlassian-outage #aws-elb

2024

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Dec 25

NOTE Bayes' Theorem, the thing we learned in our statistics class

Distributed Systems #system-design #ads-engineering
Dec 17

NOTE 60% of the tables I have recently designed, do not

Distributed Systems #databases #system-design
Dec 06

NOTE PostgreSQL is a fascinating database and if you want to

Distributed Systems #system-design #databases
Nov 03

NOTE Today, I spent some time digging deeper into K-D trees

Algorithms & Data Structures #system-design #database-internals
Oct 26

NOTE While exploring deadlock management in databases, I stumbled upon an

Career Growth #database-internals #system-design
Oct 13

NOTE The root cause of performance issues is almost always a

Distributed Systems #system-design
Sep 28

VIDEO Amazon DynamoDB - Paper Explained: Deep Dive into its Architecture and Design Principles

Databases #dynamodb #distributed-databases #nosql
Sep 13

NOTE While I was trying to figure out which paper to

Distributed Systems #system-design
Sep 11

NOTE I extensively used Elasticsearch for 2 years straight while I

Distributed Systems #system-design #elastic-search-internals
Sep 03

NOTE You must the isolation level of your database, as picking

Distributed Systems #databases #system-design
Sep 02

NOTE It is not space vs time, but space vs time vs correctness

Algorithms & Data Structures #redis #system-design
Aug 29

NOTE Most early engineers (in some cases even seniors) get confused

Distributed Systems #system-design
Aug 23

NOTE Database guarantees durability using WAL, and it is possible due

Distributed Systems #database-engineering #system-design
Aug 21

BLOG Paper Notes - WTF - The Who to Follow Service at Twitter

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #algorithms #memory-management
Aug 15

VIDEO A Bug in GitHub's Redis-Based Rate Limiter: The Wobbling X-RateLimit-Reset Header

Distributed Systems #rate-limiting #redis #distributed-systems
Aug 11

VIDEO Software Rewrites vs. Reuse: Navigating the Build vs. Buy Dilemma

Software Engineering Practices #software-development #code-rewrite #code-reuse
Aug 08

NOTE PostgreSQL crumbles even when a moderate number of clients connect to it

Distributed Systems #database-internals #system-design
Aug 04

VIDEO Postel's Law: Principles for Robust API Design

Api Design #api-design #postels-law #robustness
Jul 24

NOTE Should two microservices services share a database

Distributed Systems #system-design
Jul 19

NOTE ULIDs are great, but are they the ultimate ID generation solution

Career Growth #system-design
Jul 17

NOTE I spent some time this afternoon going through Buffer Cache

Distributed Systems #postgre-sqlinternals #system-design
Jun 21

VIDEO Designing a Real-Time Gaming Leaderboard: Horizontally Scalable & Highly Available

Distributed Systems #system-design #real-time-analytics #databases
Jun 18

NOTE One of the most amusing features of PostgreSQL is Tablespaces,

Distributed Systems #system-design #database-internals #postgre-sqlinternals
Jun 13

NOTE One really interesting blog I read today was about how

Career Growth #system-design #recommendation-system
Jun 12

NOTE While exploring PostgreSQL internals, I stumbled upon an interesting internal

Algorithms & Data Structures #database-internals #system-design
Jun 05

NOTE Today, I was going through PostgreSQL internals and found something

Distributed Systems #database-internals #system-design
May 22

NOTE Zero-copy writes make Kafka fast, but how exactly

Distributed Systems #system-design
May 17

VIDEO Architecting for 20 Million Concurrent Viewers: Inside JioCinema's IPL Live Streaming Infrastructure

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #system-design #high-availability
May 10

VIDEO Designing Reddit's Unified Media Metadata Store: 100k RPS at 17ms p99 Latency

Distributed Systems #postgresql #aurora #pgbouncer
May 04

NOTE One of the most interesting projects that I did in

Career Growth #system-design
May 01

NOTE Once I was reviewing a code and I found that

Career Growth #system-design
Apr 11

NOTE It is not worth optimizing your code further ⚡

Career Growth #system-design #optimization
Apr 08

NOTE Do not keep looking for beginner-friendly content ⚡

Career Growth #career-growth #asli-engineering #system-design
Apr 05

VIDEO How DNS Works: Decentralized Architecture, Anycast, and Infinite Scale

Distributed Systems #dns #networking #distributed-systems
Mar 25

NOTE You can understand Bloom Filters through a 5-minute video but

Algorithms & Data Structures #bloom-filters #system-design
Mar 07

NOTE Hot shards are a pain, but why do they occur

Distributed Systems #system-design
Mar 06

NOTE Whenever you are shipping any service, make it highly observable ⚡

Distributed Systems #system-design
Mar 03

NOTE Interfaces in Go are costly

Career Growth #system-design #database-internals
Feb 29

NOTE Frontend is the worst place to hardcode the errors ⚡

Career Growth #system-design
Feb 23

VIDEO Understanding Database Trade-offs: The RUM Conjecture Explained

Systems Internals #databases #rum-conjecture #storage-engines
Feb 18

NOTE Spent Sunday afternoon prototyping probabilistic counting ⚡

Career Growth #system-design #algorithms
Feb 17

VIDEO The Google File System (GFS): Architecture, Trade-Offs, and Internals

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #gfs #storage-engines
Jan 21

NOTE Google created the Snappy Compression Algorithm that trades off better

Systems Internals #system-design
Jan 20

NOTE Why do most Bloom Filters use MurmurHash over SHA or MD5

Algorithms & Data Structures #bloom-filters #system-design
Jan 11

NOTE Some internal tools at cloud companies like AWS, GCP, and

Career Growth #system-design
Jan 10

NOTE System Design in the real world always revolves around cost 💰

Distributed Systems #system-design
Jan 06

NOTE Projects are the best way to learn a programming language,

Distributed Systems #go #system-design

2023

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Dec 23

NOTE We can optimize for anything, and the context determines what we choose to optimize ⚡

Career Growth #career-growth #asli-engineering #system-design
Dec 20

NOTE The coolest thing about Google's Spanner Database is its clock

Career Growth #system-design #distributed-systems
Dec 18

NOTE One paper that sparked my interest in the big data

Career Growth #system-design
Dec 08

NOTE Pre-signed URLs are great, but should we add an extra

Career Growth #system-design
Dec 01

NOTE Before you ship your next big feature, just put it

Career Growth #system-design
Nov 25

NOTE Here's an interesting question asked on Partitioning and Sharding ⚡

Distributed Systems #system-design
Nov 02

NOTE Why designing highly available services important

Distributed Systems #system-design
Oct 24

NOTE Netflix gave up on strict data consistency and guarantees to

Career Growth #system-design
Oct 15

VIDEO CAP Theorem: First Principles, the '2 of 3' Myth, and How Google Spanner Approaches It

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #cap-theorem #cloud-spanner
Oct 14

NOTE During my live cohort, we were discussing BLOB vs TEXT,

Distributed Systems #system-design #my-sql
Oct 04

NOTE Just built a SQL connection pool in Go from scratch ⚡

Career Growth #system-design
Sep 22

VIDEO Bloom Filters from First Principles: Architecture, Trade-Offs, and Internals

Algorithms & Data Structures #bloom-filters #data-structures #hashing
Sep 21

NOTE Changing something in staging can take down production ⚡

Distributed Systems #microservices #system-design
Aug 25

NOTE Common misconception - CDNs can *only* cache images and videos ⚡

Career Growth #system-design
Aug 14

NOTE System Design is not about drawing boxes, you need to

Distributed Systems #system-design
Jul 30

NOTE ACID and CAP theorem, both have C standing for "Consistency",

Distributed Systems #system-design
Jul 25

VIDEO A Strategic Framework for Choosing Which Technologies to Learn

Career Growth #career-growth #software-engineering #skill-acquisition
Jul 18

NOTE Something that always gets us confused

Career Growth #system-design #python
Jun 27

NOTE Dropbox migrated systems that handle tens of millions of open

Career Growth #system-design
Jun 22

NOTE How important is a rate limiter for a system like S3

Career Growth #system-design
Jun 16

VIDEO Five Critical Anti-Patterns Every Software Developer Must Avoid

Career Growth #software-engineering #clean-code #system-design
Jun 10

NOTE 3 videos that cover everything about sharding, partitioning, and their

Distributed Systems #system-design
Jun 06

NOTE How do the updates happening on the master reach the replica

Distributed Systems #database-engineering #system-design
May 25

VIDEO High-Level Architecture and System Design of PayPal's JunoDB

Distributed Systems #junodb #distributed-databases #key-value-store
May 14

NOTE A lot of engineers believe RPC is the same as gRPC 🤦‍♂️

Career Growth #system-design
May 05

VIDEO A Pragmatic Framework to Learn Better and Faster as a Software Engineer

Career Growth #career-growth #continuous-learning #software-engineering
May 04

NOTE Amazon's Prime Video cut 90% of its cloud costs by

Distributed Systems #system-design
May 01

NOTE CockroachDB is fascinating

Distributed Systems #system-design #cockroach-db
Apr 22

NOTE Writes in CockroachDB are fascinating as it directly guarantees a

Distributed Systems #system-design #database-internals
Apr 18

NOTE CockroachDB Internals ] CockroachDB is distributed SQL database that replicates

Distributed Systems #system-design #database-internals
Apr 17

NOTE Consistent Hashing is not some magical solution that fits everywhere

Distributed Systems #consistent-hashing #system-design
Apr 12

NOTE CockroachDB Internals ] Data Structures and Algorithms are crucial in

Distributed Systems #system-design #database-internals
Apr 06

NOTE CockroachDB Internals ] Let's talk about OLTP and OLAP databases

Distributed Systems #system-design
Apr 01

NOTE I was always fascinated by virtual memory management, hence decided

Systems Internals #memory-management #system-design
Mar 30

NOTE Spent yesterday evening reading about and implementing Snappy Compression Algorithm

Systems Internals #system-design
Mar 12

NOTE How databases are upgraded in production

Distributed Systems #system-design #databases
Feb 21

NOTE 3 in-depth videos that cover everything about Sharding along with

Distributed Systems #system-design

2022

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2021

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Oct 03

NOTE Essay : Preventing Wormholes in a Distributed Datastore

Distributed Systems #system-design #distributed-systems
Sep 22

NOTE How would you feel when you posted on a Social

Distributed Systems #system-design #distributed-systems
Sep 07

BLOG What Happens When a Master or Replica Fails

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #databases #replication
Sep 07

NOTE Essay : Everything you need to know about handling node

Career Growth #system-design #distributed-systems
Aug 23

NOTE Recently I wrote a short snippet about setting up a

Distributed Systems #system-design #distributed-systems
Aug 21

NOTE Ever wondered how the Replication happens, how a new Replica

Distributed Systems #system-design #distributed-systems
Aug 15

BLOG Replication Formats - Statement vs Row-based

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #databases #networking
Aug 15

NOTE Ever wonder how replication happens between Master and Replica

Distributed Systems #system-design #distributed-systems
Aug 07

BLOG Master-Replica Replication

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #databases #replication
Jun 22

BLOG Architectural Patterns for Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #databases #system-design
May 02

VIDEO Scaling a Taxonomy Service and Database: Architecture and Bottlenecks

Distributed Systems #system-design #database-scaling #caching
Apr 19

VIDEO Designing a Scalable Udemy-Style Taxonomy Hierarchy in SQL

Databases #system-design #sql #database-design
Apr 05

VIDEO Designing End-to-End Message Encryption: From First Principles to Real-World Architecture

Distributed Systems #encryption #cryptography #system-design
Apr 01

VIDEO Designing a Scalable Notification Service for Instagram

Distributed Systems #system-design #distributed-systems #kafka