distributed-systems
Unique ID generator — Twitter snow flake design
DESIGN In large distributed systems, something that looks simple on the surface — generating a unique ID — becomes surprisingly hard. When millions of users are...
Tag: distributed-systems
5 articles about distributed-systems
design
Strategies to Scale Database Writes
In the previous article [https://medium.com/@akshatjme/5671a7ac80e1], we saw how to scale reads by reducing the amount of work the database has to do for every...
system-design-concepts
Strategies to Scale Database Reads
Learn how to scale database reads as traffic grows through replicas, caching, materialized views, denormalization, and other proven techniques that reduce repeated work.
blockchain
How Blockchain Works
A plain‑English guide to blockchain: shared ledgers, blocks and hashes, cryptographic integrity, and how consensus keeps many untrusted nodes in sync.
system-design
System Design: Building a Notification Service
Designing a scalable notification system with queues, retries, idempotency, and user preferences.