CDN and Load balancers (Understanding the request flow)
In this system design series, I’ve started on this blog, I discuss the intricacies of designing distributed scalable systems and the related concepts. This will help you immensely with your software architecture and system design interview rounds, in addition to helping you become a better…
How Actor model/Actors run in clusters facilitating asynchronous communication in distributed systems
This blog post is a continuation of my previous post, in the system design series, on understanding the actor model to build non-blocking, high-throughput distributed systems. If you haven’t read it, I suggest giving it a read. Various Actor model frameworks, like Akka, ProtoActor, Actix,…
Understanding the Actor model to build non-blocking, high-throughput distributed systems
This is the fourth post in the system design series where I discuss the intricacies of designing distributed scalable systems and the related concepts. This will help you immensely with your software architecture and system design interview rounds, in addition to helping you become a better…
Monolithic architecture simplified
This write-up takes a deep dive into monolithic architecture. We will understand what it is and why implement it. What is monolithic architecture? An application has a monolithic architecture if it contains the entire application code in a single codebase. A monolithic application is a…
‘Futures and Promises’ – How Instagram leverages it for better resource utilization
Futures and Promises is a concept that enables a process to execute asynchronously, improving performance and resource consumption. It can be applied in multiple contexts, such as in request-response in a web service call, long-running computations, database queries, remote procedure calls, interservice communication in distributed…
McDonald’s Event-Driven Architecture – A Gist
McDonald’s uses events across their distributed architecture for use cases such as asynchronous, transactional and analytical processing, including mobile-order progress tracking and sending marketing offers like deals and promotions to their customers. As opposed to building event streaming solutions for every individual or a set…
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