Best Courses, Books, Research Papers & Repos To Learn Software Architecture, System Design and Distributed Systems
In this article, I’ve put together a list of resources that I believe are super helpful in building a solid foundation in software architecture and designing large-scale distributed systems like Facebook, YouTube, Gmail, Uber and such. I’ll start with the courses and then will...
YouTube Architecture – How Does It Serve High-Quality Videos With Low Latency
I wrote an article earlier on how YouTube stores petabyte-scale data every single day without running out of storage space. Do check it out. In this one, I’ll discuss how the platform servers high-quality videos with such low latency. So, without further ado. Let’s jump...
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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...
Master system design for your interviews or your web startup
The word system design got pretty popular with software engineers ever since the FAANG and the FAANG-tier companies added an essential system design round in their interview process. I mean that’s how I came across the term. Now the obvious question that would pop up...
Product development: An insight into the process of developing new products
Hello, world, This write-up takes a deep dive into the process of developing a new product from the bare bones. I’ve been writing software for more than ten years and the reason for this post is to share the little knowledge I’ve acquired about building...
YouTube database – How does it store so many videos without running out of storage space?
YouTube is one of the most popular websites on the planet. As of May 2019, more than 500 hours of video content is uploaded to the platform every single minute. With over 2 billion users, the video-sharing platform is generating billions of views with over...
Monzo Architecture – An Insight Into the Backend Infrastructure of a Modern Digital Bank
Monzo is a digital, mobile-only bank based in the United Kingdom. It is one of the earliest app-based digital banks in the UK. Monzo set a record for the quickest crowd-funding campaign in history raising 1 million pounds in 96 seconds via the CrowdCube investment...
An insight into how Uber scaled from a monolith to a microservice architecture
Uber started its service from San Francisco with a monolithic repo. The solo repo held the business logic for matching drivers and riders, running background checks, taking care of the billing and the payment and all the other related functionalities. As the service got popular, the...
Distributed Data Processing 101 – A Deep Dive
This write-up is an insight into distributed data processing. It addresses the frequently asked questions on it such as: What is distributed data processing? How different is it in comparison to centralized data processing? What are the pros and cons? What are the various approaches...
Distributed Cache 101 – A Deep Dive
This write-up is an insight into distributed cache. It addresses the frequently asked questions on it such as: What is a distributed cache? What is the need for it? How is it architecturally different from traditional caching? What are the use cases of distributed caches?...
Facebook Real-time Chat Architecture Scaling With Over Multi-Billion Messages Daily
This is my second write-up on Facebook architecture. In the first, I covered the databases leveraged by Facebook. In this write-up, I will talk about the real-time chat architecture of Facebook which scales with over multi-billion messages sent every single day. Let’s jump right into...
Twitter’s Migration to Google Cloud – An Architectural Insight
This is my second write-up on the infrastructure @Twitter. In the first, I delved into the database technologies leveraged by the social platform to store petabytes of data generated every single day. Twitter recently moved a part of their workload to the Google Cloud to...
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