Archive

November 2024

• How to Avoid Cache Stampede or "Dogpile" Problem Upon Cache Expiry?

• How Grab Stores and Processes Millions of Orders Everyday?

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October 2024

• How to Handle Multi-Tenant Performance Issues or "Noisy Neighbor Problem"?

• How GitHub Scaled Push Flow Using Apache Kafka to Handle Millions of Pushes?

• How Microservices, Cloning, and Monoliths Work — Explained Like You’re Five!

• How NoSQL Databases Speed-Up Write-Heavy Workloads?

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September 2024

• How Bloom Filters Make Checking Millions of Usernames Lightning Fast?

• How Consistent Hashing Minimizes Data Movement in Scalable Systems?

• Understanding Stream Processing Guarantees in Apache Kafka

• How Distributed Systems Avoid Race Conditions using Pessimistic Locking?

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August 2024

• How to Solve Producer Consumer Problem with Backpressure?

• How to Invalidate and Evict Data from Cache?

• How Databases Avoid Data Loss with Write-Ahead Logs?

• How to Handle Sudden Bursts of Traffic or "Thundering Herd Problem"?

• How Load Balancers Distribute Traffic?

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July 2024

• How is Data Replicated in Distributed Systems?

• Consistency Models in Distributed Systems

• Mistaken Beliefs about Distributed Systems

• Understanding CAP Theorem for Distributed Systems

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June 2024

• Logical Clocks and Clock Synchronization in Distributed Systems

• Why Distributed Transactions can be slow?

• How AWS Lambda supports container images up to 10 GiB in size?