Evangelina·1d agoThree Days Offline: What Happens When a National Registry Loses Connection?Designing a distributed population registry that can keep serving residents when its connection to the center disappears.
Ryan Hancock·2d agoMeet GekGo — 2.5 million simulated parcels, one real codebaseSo I wanted to show off a portfolio piece to help me attract more clients for my freelancing. To enable that, I was looking around for apps…
ceren demir·3d agoYour Retries Might Be the Outage: Backoff and Jitter, ExplainedRetrying a failed request feels harmless. Done naively, it can turn a short blip into a long outage. Here’s how to retry without hurting…
InEngineering Under PressurebyProduction Systems | By Devrim·4d agoHe Solved Our Coding Interview in 12 Minutes. The Senior Engineer We Rejected Took 47We hired the fastest candidate, congratulated ourselves on raising the engineering bar, and discovered that writing correct code in an…
Abinesh Siva Manikandan J R·Nov 5System Design Zero to Architect : Part 11: Capstone: Designing and Building a URL ShortenerSeason 1: Foundations · Part 11 · Prerequisites: Parts 1 to 10 · Reading time: about 50 minutes
Kaushik Yellanki·Nov 4When “Deleted” Doesn’t Mean Deleted: Building GhostTrace Guard for HackerRank OrchestrateMy experience solving a real-world data privacy challenge, building an evidence-driven auditing system, and learning why reliable…
Pavaneeshwar·Nov 4Optimize LLM’s Cost and Latency using CachingWell one user prompting a single LLM call doesn’t impact performance of the system much sometimes even 100 requests doesn’t make an impact…
Daniel·Nov 4Designing Takarda for results day and the day afterA national results platform has two workloads with very different rhythms. On results day, many students check the same sitting in a short…A response icon1A response icon1
Mohit Salvi·Oct 29Design Uber — The System Design SeriesHow would you design a ride-hailing platform that connects millions of riders and drivers, tracks locations in real time, calculates fares…
Ethan Parker·Oct 28Retry Logic and Exponential BackoffHow to recover from transient failures without overwhelming services, duplicating notifications, or increasing delivery costs.A response icon1A response icon1
