Systems Design & Architecture

If you’re reading this, there’s a decent chance you have a system design round coming up soon, you’ve been putting off preparing because… Continue reading on Le

I’ve sat in both chairs for this interview. The first time I took it, I got a technically correct answer, got rejected, and had no idea… Continue reading on Cod

A few years ago, having a responsive website was enough to stay competitive. Today, that’s merely the starting point. Continue reading on Medium »

State management is one of those problems that every React developer eventually has to solve — and solve well. As applications grow, so… Continue reading on Web

Apache Kafka has become the de facto standard for real-time data streaming and event-driven architectures. But simply adopting Kafka isn’t… Continue reading on

If you’ve been building Angular apps long enough, you already know that pipes are not just about formatting text or changing dates. Pipes… Continue reading on M

You have built both without fully naming them. Here is what frontend and backend actually mean and how they work together. Continue reading on Medium »

You have built both without fully naming them. Here is what frontend and backend actually mean and how they work together. Continue reading on Medium »

A framework for understanding the modern software industry by mapping it into eight distinct city-states, each with its own economic logic, competitive dynamics

The best developers spend more time thinking than typing. Here is exactly how to plan a system properly before you open your code editor. Continue reading on Me

The best developers spend more time thinking than typing. Here is exactly how to plan a system properly before you open your code editor. Continue reading on Me

Live cursors, presence, shared state, and room-based events are not just UI features. They are distributed systems problems wrapped inside… Continue reading on

The singleton is one of the first design patterns most programmers learn, and one of the first they reach for out of habit. The idea is… Continue reading on Sta

A working definition for a discipline that didn’t have a name until now. Continue reading on Medium »

When you start learning object-oriented programming, three concepts show up very early: Continue reading on Medium »

The systems engineer who fully owns the operational outcome: the security, the compliance, the resilience, the mission, is what we call a mission operator.

As these systems become more complex, innovation must be less fragmented than it is today. This is the missing middle.​

Let’s be honest, the tech we use today is amazing, but it can also be complex. It’s only natural that teams want to build platforms that hide this complexity to

In this episode, Heroku co-founder and Ink & Switch founder Adam Wiggins argues for a 'local-first' architecture that reconciles cloud-based collaboration with

As I continue studying Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann, I've reached one of the most fascinating topics in… Continue reading on Medium

Design patterns are not interview decoration. They are the invisible habits that keep real codebases from turning into expensive confusion. Continue reading on

The article examines Linux's io_uring interface from a systems engineering perspective, explaining how shared ring buffers, SQPOLL, multishot operations, and li

Before you build anything serious, you need to understand how it is structured. This is the thinking behind every great system ever built. Continue reading on M

An FDE, or Forward Deployed Engineer, is best understood through a system design problem where the product cannot succeed by being… Continue reading on Medium »

When developers first learn Redux, handling API calls seems straightforward. Continue reading on Medium »

This article argues that reliable event-driven systems should be designed for replayability as well as uptime. It introduces the concept of Recovery Contracts,

This massive technical bottleneck creates a frustrating data freeze across your active workflows. For instance, many system builders face… Continue reading on M

Bu belge, PastryFlow şube yönetim sistemindeki stok takip mimarisinin statik mutasyon modelinden, defter/hareket tabanlı dinamik yeniden… Continue reading on Me

Have you ever stared at a bulky, 3-prong laptop charger and thought: “Why is this extra pin even here?” Continue reading on Medium »

Part 4 of the 30 Must-Know System Design Concepts. Learn how to handle explosive growth, distribute traffic intelligently, and scale your… Continue reading on M

Part 4 of the 30 Must-Know System Design Concepts. Learn how to handle explosive growth, distribute traffic intelligently, and scale your… Continue reading on M

When people build their first permission system, they often start with roles: admin, regular user, member, guest, super admin. The role… Continue reading on Med

How endless feeds work — from scroll math to the IntersectionObserver. Continue reading on Medium »

Hey all, I am looking for some advice regarding an application I am developing for a charity as part of a university project. The db will have up to 1000 - 1500

Data Oriented Design is the practice of building code that's optimized for the hardware it runs on. Entity Component Systems help writing DOD-friendly code by l

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Authorization is one of those problems that looks simple until it isn’t. Continue reading on Medium »

How to architect applications that remain scalable, maintainable, and fast as your team and product grow. Continue reading on Medium »

In today’s digital world, businesses are rapidly shifting online, creating a huge demand for skilled web developers. Companies are looking… Continue reading on

Writing an end-to-end (E2E) test feels like a quick win. You target a button, trigger a click, assert a redirect, and watch the pipeline… Continue reading on Me

The SNIA MRAM SIG will explore, through its interface subgroup, an architectural ecosystem enabling MRAM connectivity via LPDDR, CXL and chiplet interfaces.

In the taxonomy of internet infrastructure; cloud, payments, identity, communications,...

I have watched strong engineers walk into system design interviews knowing every technology on the whiteboard and still fail, badly. Here… Continue reading on S

Deconstructing ancient data management through the lens of System Architecture, Peer-to-Peer networks, and VPN tunnels. Continue reading on Medium »

the most powerful TypeScript design patterns for modern frontend apps from Repository to Observer with real-world React examples that make… Continue reading on

Why near-real-time beats real-time — and why YouTube polls instead of opening a million WebSockets. Continue reading on Medium »

Foundational web development practices still shape how websites and web applications perform, protect users and hold up when real-world conditions aren’t ideal.

Sean Klein discusses why "human error" is a dangerous myth in complex systems. Sharing the inside story of Azure’s 2023 global WAN outage, he explains how moder