Posts tagged "system design"

Most explanations of queues and pub/sub start with buzzwords and skip the only question that matters: why did engineers invent these tools? This article starts from the problem, not the tool.

A tutor-style walkthrough of what a distributed database control plane actually is, why metadata is the crown jewel, where Raft fits in, and how to follow one request end-to-end to remember the whole design.

A reference index of the 30 recurring system design building blocks: what each one is, what problem it solves, and what it costs. Notes collected while studying distributed systems.

The sliding window pattern shows up in rate limiters, monitoring dashboards, and analytics pipelines. This guide explains the concept from first principles, then builds a real-time stock price monitor in Go step by step — explaining each piece before writing a line of code.