Real-world distributed architectures
| What Does 100 Million Users On A Google Service Mean? | 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 |
| Google Databases: How Do Google Services Store Petabyte-Exabyte Scale Data? | 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 |
| An Insight Into Uber’s Financial Cloud Platform | 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 Cloud Infrastructure With Google Cloud Platform | Article Link |
| LinkedIn Real-Time Architecture: How Does LinkedIn Identify Its Users Online? | Article Link |
| Open Banking Architecture – Build Fintech Apps Consuming the Open APIs | 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 |
| Master System Design For Your Interviews Or Web Startup | Article Link |
Concepts
| Network file system – A deep dive into a distributed file system protocol | Article Link |
| Distributed Data Processing 101 – The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need | Article Link |
| Distributed Cache 101 – The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need | Article Link |
| Wide-column, Column-oriented and Column Family Databases – A Deep Dive With Bigtable and Cassandra | Article Link |
| Web application architecture explained with designing a real-world service | Article Link |
Distributed Systems and Scalability feed
| Distributed Systems and Scalability #1 – Heroku Client Rate Throttling… | Feed Link |
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