Best (Handpicked) Resources To Learn Software Architecture, Distributed Systems and System Design
In this article, I’ve put together a list of resources (online courses + books) 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 & so on. I’ll start with…
An Insight Into the Backend Infrastructure Of A Modern Digital Bank – Monzo Architecture
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…
Open Banking Architecture – Build Fintech Apps Consuming the Open APIs
Open banking is a financial services term originated from the concept of Open innovation that means no secrecy, no hold of a centralized authority over our data in this information age. Things should be transparent. Something along the lines of the blockchain philosophy. Open banking…
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…
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, the persistence tech used @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. What technologies…
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