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Topics related to systems where components are on different networked computers.

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Every metric is green-ok but your users can't log-in

Every metric is green-ok but your users can't log-in

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How GitHub Broke Apart Its Massive Database — Without Anyone Noticing
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How GitHub Broke Apart Its Massive Database — Without Anyone Noticing

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🚀 Designing a Flash Sale System That Never Oversells</h1> <h3>From 1 User to 1 Million Users (Without Crashing Redis)

🚀 Designing a Flash Sale System That Never Oversells</h1> <h3>From 1 User to 1 Million Users (Without Crashing Redis)

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CP Systems Explained: The Hidden Cost of Strong Consistency
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CP Systems Explained: The Hidden Cost of Strong Consistency

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CAP Theorem Explained: Beyond the "Pick Two" Myth
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CAP Theorem Explained: Beyond the "Pick Two" Myth

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Understanding mTLS in Cloud Environments: A Complete Guide

Understanding mTLS in Cloud Environments: A Complete Guide

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Fan-Out in Social Media Feeds Explained from First Principles
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Fan-Out in Social Media Feeds Explained from First Principles

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Transactional Integrity in Distributed Financial Ledger Systems: Architecture, Invariants, and Failure Models
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Transactional Integrity in Distributed Financial Ledger Systems: Architecture, Invariants, and Failure Models

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A Terminal Chat App to Understand Reconnects in Real-Time Systems

A Terminal Chat App to Understand Reconnects in Real-Time Systems

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Why Raft Fails in Production and How Taubyte Raft Fixes It
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Why Raft Fails in Production and How Taubyte Raft Fixes It

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🚀 Swiggy System Design: How a Food Delivery Giant Scales to Millions
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🚀 Swiggy System Design: How a Food Delivery Giant Scales to Millions

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AI-Assisted Incident Triage in Large-Scale Cloud Systems: A Human-Centered Reliability Framework
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AI-Assisted Incident Triage in Large-Scale Cloud Systems: A Human-Centered Reliability Framework

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Kafka Guarantees Delivery, Not Uniqueness: How to Build Idempotent Systems
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Kafka Guarantees Delivery, Not Uniqueness: How to Build Idempotent Systems

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Building Cryptographically Secure Random Number Generators for High-Stakes Distributed Systems

Building Cryptographically Secure Random Number Generators for High-Stakes Distributed Systems

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Why I built a Apache Kafka Explorer that doesn't need Docker or Java?

Why I built a Apache Kafka Explorer that doesn't need Docker or Java?

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