The Real Problem With Uptime Monitoring Most uptime monitoring tools work like this: - A single server sends a request to your endpoint every few minutes. - If...
Overview S2C is a novel implementation of distributed consensus and state machine replication built on top of shared storage AWS S3. It can be embedded in any...
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Why Designing a Real‑Time Chat Application Is Hard Designing a real‑time chat application is significantly more complex than building systems like a URL shorte...
Background At Discord, we aim for chat, reactions, and meme posting to feel instantaneous. We achieve this at scale by leveraging Elixir’s powerful concurrency...
The Edge Deployment Challenge Modern microservice applications are moving beyond central data centers and the cloud to the edge to provide ultra‑low latency an...
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Designing a URL shortener is one of the most popular system‑design interview questions. It looks simple, but it tests your understanding of scalability, databas...
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🌱 How It Started Few years ago, I had a system‑design interview. The interviewer gave me this scenario: > Design a national vaccine appointment booking system...
The Thundering Herd Problem Imagine a popular store opening its doors at 9 AM sharp. Hundreds of customers line up outside and rush in simultaneously, overwhel...
What is Distributed Snapshots? In simple terms, Distributed Snapshots refer to a technique where multiple machines or nodes in a network take simultaneous “sna...
