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Consistent Hashing: The Secret Sauce of Distributed Scalability

Consistent Hashing: Scaling Without the Chaos In a distributed system, you need a way to map data keys to specific servers. The naive approach—server = hash(key) % N—works until you need to add or remove a server (N chan…

Apr 20, 20266 min read

Deep DiveDistributed Systems Fundamentals

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Database Sharding Part 4: Consistent Hashing Internals

Database Sharding Part 4: Consistent Hashing Internals In Part 3, we successfully identified userid as our shard key. Now, we must write the mathematical algorithm that routes an incoming query containing userid: 1045 to…

Apr 20, 20265 min read

Deep DiveDatabase Sharding Mastery

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Distributed Caching at Scale: Mitigating the Thundering Herd

Distributed Caching at Scale In a distributed system, caching is often the difference between a sub-100ms response and a total system collapse. However, most developers treat Redis as a simple "key-value bucket." At scal…

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49 articles

Consistent Hashing: The Secret Sauce of Distributed Scalability

Database Sharding Part 4: Consistent Hashing Internals

Distributed Caching at Scale: Mitigating the Thundering Herd

Distributed Transactions Part 2: The Blocking Trap

Distributed Transactions Part 7: Case Study - The Global Fintech Ledger

Backpressure Propagation: Designing Flow Control in Microservices

Multi-Region DR: Warm Standby vs Active-Active

Kafka Consumer Groups Explained: Scaling Your Message Consumption

Kafka Partition Skew Management

Kafka Rebalance Storms: Solving the 'Stop-the-World' Problem

System Design: Designing an Ad Click Aggregator

System Design: Designing Airbnb (Hotel/Home Booking)

System Design: Designing a Content Delivery Network (CDN)

System Design: Designing a Content Moderation System (Meta/TikTok Scale)

System Design: Data Partitioning and Sharding Strategies

System Design: Designing a Database Proxy for Sharding (Vitess Style)

System Design: Designing a Distributed BLOB Store (like S3/GCS)

System Design: Designing a Distributed File System (HDFS/GCS Style)

System Design: Designing a Distributed ID Generator (Snowflake)

System Design: Designing a Distributed Logging System (TB/Day Scale)

System Design: Designing a Global Distributed Rate Limiter

System Design: Designing a Distributed Search Engine (Elasticsearch)

System Design: Designing a Distributed Task Scheduler

System Design: Managing Distributed Transactions with the Saga Pattern

System Design: Designing an E-commerce Checkout System

System Design: Designing a Food Delivery App (Uber Eats / DoorDash)

System Design: Designing a Real-time Gaming Leaderboard (Massive Scale)

System Design: Designing Google Drive (Distributed File Storage)

System Design: Designing a Distributed ID Generation Service

System Design: Designing a Metrics Monitoring and Alerting System

System Design: Designing Nearby Friends (Real-time Geospatial Streams)

System Design: Designing an Object Store (Amazon S3 Internals)

System Design: Designing an Online Auction System (eBay Scale)

System Design: Designing an Online Judge (LeetCode/HackerRank)

System Design: Designing a Proximity Service (Yelp/Google Maps)

System Design: Designing a Pub/Sub Messaging Platform

System Design: Designing a Real-Time Analytics Dashboard

System Design: Designing a Real-time Bidding (RTB) Ad System

System Design: Designing a Real-time Recommendation Engine (TikTok / Netflix)

Project Case Study: Designing Stripe’s Ledger System

System Design: Designing Ticketmaster (High-Concurrency Booking)

System Design: Solving the Top K Problem (Heavy Hitters)

System Design: Designing Twitter (Timeline and News Feed)

System Design: Designing a Web Crawler at Google Scale

Project Case Study: Designing YouTube (Video Streaming at Global Scale)

System Design: Designing a Video Conferencing System (Zoom / MS Teams)

WebSocket Fleet Management: Handling Millions of Connections

What is Load Balancing? A Simple Guide for Backend Engineers

AWS Architecture Patterns for High-Traffic Applications