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Slices: The Right Size for Microservices
Slices: The Right Size for Microservices The Granularity Trap Every team that adopts microservices eventually hits the same wall: how big should a service be?...
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How Instagram Scales Tagging for Billions of Users
Introduction Have you ever wondered what happens in the milliseconds between hitting “Share” on a photo and your friend receiving a notification that they’ve b...
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Boundaries: The Real Foundation of Any Modern Architecture (Microservices or Otherwise)
Introduction In 2026, the biggest lesson from the microservices era isn’t about going small or fancy tooling—it’s about boundaries. When boundaries are weak or...
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How Large Systems Rethink Communication
Introduction Have you ever noticed how systems that worked perfectly fine suddenly start behaving differently as they grow? It’s not because the early decision...
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d-engine: A Lightweight Distributed Coordination Engine for Rust
Overview A lightweight Raft implementation designed for embedding into Rust applications — the consensus layer for building reliable distributed systems. Built...
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Day 2: Blockchain Basics | From Centralized DB to Distributed State Machine
The Paradigm Shift — From Centralized Databases to Decentralized Ledgers As a backend engineer with nearly a decade of experience, I am accustomed to distribut...
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Open sourcing Dicer: Databricks's auto-sharder
Article URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/open-sourcing-dicer-databricks-auto-sharder Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46606902 Points: 27...
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Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024)
Article URL: https://www.cloudamqp.com/blog/message-queues-exaplined-with-analogies.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591402 Points: 56...
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Real-World Error Handling in Distributed Systems
Practical Error Handling in Distributed Systems: What Actually Works Distributed systems look elegant in architecture diagrams, but error handling is where the...
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Beyond the Buzzwords: 5 Counter-Intuitive Lessons in System Design
Introduction The Elegance Below the Surface Have you ever wondered how a platform like YouTube can seamlessly handle billions of video plays, uploads, and comm...
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How LED Display Control Software Works: A Developer’s Guide
Introduction When people talk about LED displays, they usually focus on hardware specs—pixel pitch, brightness, or cabinet size. Modern LED displays behave mor...
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Designing Privacy-Safe Logging at Scale: Lessons from Building Compliance-Aware Observability Systems
As regulatory scrutiny increases and distributed systems grow more complex, many organizations have accepted that privacy-safe logging is important. Fewer have...