Full list of distributed systems articles
Shivang
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Real-world distributed architectures
| What Do 100 Million Users On A Google Service Mean? – System Design for Scale and High Availability | Article Link |
| How Razorpay handled significant transaction bursts during events like IPL | Article Link |
| YouTube Architecture – How Does It Serve High-Quality Videos With Low Latency | Article Link |
| YouTube Database – How Does It Store So Many Videos Without Running Out Of Storage Space? | Article Link |
| How Hotstar Scaled With Over 11 Million Concurrent Users – An Architectural Insight | Article Link |
| How Does PayPal Process Billions of Messages Per Day with Reactive Streams? | Article Link |
| An Insight Into How Uber Scaled From A Monolith To A Microservice Architecture | Article Link |
| Facebook Real-time Chat Architecture Scaling With Over Multi-Billion Messages Daily | Article Link |
| Facebook Database [Updated] – A Thorough Insight Into The Databases Used @Facebook | Article Link |
| Facebook’s Photo Storage Architecture | Article Link |
| Instagram Architecture – How Does It Store & Search Billions of Images | Article Link |
| Twitter’s Migration To Google Cloud – An Architectural Insight | Article Link |
| What Database Does Twitter Use? – A Deep Dive | Article Link |
| An Insight Into Bazaarvoice Scalable Architecture with Over 300 Million Visitors | Article Link |
| How Evernote Migrated & Scaled their Workload with Google Cloud Platform | Article Link |
| An Insight Into the Backend Infrastructure Of A Modern Digital Bank – Monzo Architecture | Article Link |
| How PolyHaven Manages 5 Million Page Views and 80TB Traffic a Month for < $400 | Article Link |
| ‘Futures and Promises’ – How Instagram leverages it for better resource utilization | Article Link |
| McDonald’s Event-Driven Architecture – A Gist | Article Link |
| State of Backend #2 – Disney+ Hotstar Replaced Redis and Elasticsearch with ScyllaDB. Here’s Why. | Article Link |
| State of Backend #1- Distributed Task Scheduling with Akka, Kafka and Cassandra | Article Link |
| Live Video Streaming Infrastructure at Twitch | Article Link |
| Heroku Client Rate Throttling, Tail Latency and more | Article Link |
| Monzo Architecture – An Insight Into the Backend Infrastructure of a Modern Digital Bank | Article Link |
Concepts
| Monolithic architecture simplified | Article Link |
| Understanding the Actor model to build non-blocking, high-throughput distributed systems | Article Link |
| How Actor model/Actors run in clusters facilitating asynchronous communication in distributed systems | Article Link |
| CDN and Load balancers (Understanding the request flow) | Article Link |
| Understanding API Gateway and the need for it | Article Link |
| Leveraging the Backends for frontends pattern to avert API gateway from becoming a system bottleneck | Article Link |
| Application architecture explained with a real-world example | Article Link |
| IP layers and the TCP/IP model – A deep dive | Article Link |
| An Introduction to the Network File System (NFS) | Article Link |
| Distributed Data Processing 101 – A Deep Dive | Article Link |
| Distributed Cache 101 – A Deep Dive | Article Link |
| Wide-column Database, Column Databases – A Deep Dive | Article Link |
| Web application architecture explained with a real-world example | Article Link |
| What is an Instance in Cloud Computing? – A Thorough Guide | Article Link |
| How to choose the right cloud provider for your application – A thorough guide | Article Link |
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