Engineering At Scale

Distributed Caching is a double-edged sword.

How do reservation systems prevent thousands of concurrent users from booking the same seat?

What’s the right approach for storing a file?

In the last article, we learned how connection pools play a pivotal role in managing database connections.

Database integration is easy until your application receives thousands of concurrent requests.

Introduction Have you wondered how X(Twitter) let’s you scroll infinitely through a stream of tweets?

In 2010, Facebook faced a 2.5-hour outage that left millions unable to access the site.

Should I choose a library or build a service?

Have you wondered how a single NGINX instance can handle millions of concurrent connections?

What would happen to your data if your Redis instance crashed suddenly?

E-commerce websites like Walmart show the product detail page within 2 seconds.

Have you wondered how Instagram handles millions of video uploads daily ?

Zerodha created 7 million PostgreSQL tables to scale its reporting architecture.

Video Streaming Concepts The video streaming industry has grown rapidly over the last decade and now makes up 82.5% of global internet traffic.

Meta (formerly Facebook) has more than 2 billion Daily Active Users (DAU).

Modern internet solutions offer a multitude of features for end customers.

Introduction In my first system design interview, I thought it was just about drawing boxes and arrows.

A decade ago, system design interview questions were broad, like "Design Facebook" or "Design WhatsApp," which were too complex to cover in an hour.

Streaming LLM output using Redis Streams In the past decade, streaming data has seen a meteoric growth.

Introduction On 19th July 2024, the world witnessed one of the biggest IT disruptions in recent years.