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Aviral Srivastava6d ago • 8 min read
CAP Theorem Revisited: PACELC
The CAP Theorem Got a Makeover: Meet PACELC, Your New Distributed Systems Buddy Remember...
#computerscience#database#distributedsystems#systemdesign
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Kalio Princewill3d ago • 24 min read
PostgreSQL Read Replicas with Docker: A Step-by-Step Guide
As your application scales, your database becomes the first bottleneck. Every dashboard query, every...
#postgres#distributedsystems#database
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NARESHApr 13, 2026 • 7 min read
Why Your System Breaks at Scale: Lessons from Processing Millions of Events
TL;DR Increasing threads helps only up to a point (50 → 300 worked, 500 didn't) Too many threads.....
#webdev#programming#systemdesign#distributedsystems
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Harrison Guo5d ago • 6 min read
Why Go Handles Millions of Connections: User-Space Context Switching, Explained
Go isn't magic and it isn't faster than Java. It just stops asking the kernel to help. A first-princ...
#go#concurrency#distributedsystems
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Faizan Firdousi3d ago • 5 min read
I Tested PostgreSQL on 5 Million Rows, Here’s What Actually Makes Queries Fast
when you run a query on a large table in postgres, the performance difference is rarely about the...
#database#postgres#sql#distributedsystems
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Adrián López11h ago • 14 min read
Azure Service Bus for Event-Driven Systems: A Practical Deep Dive
Introduction: Why Event-Driven Architecture Matters Now More Than Ever If you've been...
#architecture#azure#distributedsystems#microservices
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Mayckon Giovani2d ago • 4 min read
Reconciliation in Distributed Financial Systems: Why Correct Systems Still Need to Reconcile
Abstract Financial systems are often designed around strict correctness guarantees....
#distributedsystems#fintech#backend#systemdesign
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Daniel Popoola6d ago • 9 min read
Why Redis Cannot Share the Truth with Postgres - The architecture mistake that will oversell your tickets
There is a moment, somewhere in the design of almost every backend system that mixes Redis and...
#distributedsystems#softwareengineering#go#postgres
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Alan West3d ago • 5 min read
Why Your Database Is Lying to You (And How to Catch It)
Distributed databases often fail to deliver on consistency guarantees. Learn how to verify, detect, ...
#distributedsystems#database#reliability#backend
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Yu Qian Yang4d ago • 6 min read
How We Built a Disaggregated Storage Layer for a Columnar MPP Database (And What Broke in Production)
How I Built a Disaggregated Storage Layer for a Columnar MPP Database And what broke in...
#database#performance#cpp#distributedsystems
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Aryan Naik3d ago • 4 min read
How I Built a Distributed HTTP
If you've ever tried to benchmark a high-performance backend, you've probably written a quick Go or....
#go#distributedsystems#architecture#performance
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Meng Lin3d ago • 8 min read
Building NewHomie property analytics tool — Part 1
From Scrappy Scraper to Production Pipeline It all started with a question. “How am I...
#dataengineering#aws#softwareengineering#distributedsystems
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Harrison Guo3d ago • 7 min read
RPC vs NATS: It's Not About Sync vs Async — It's About Who Owns Completion
The most common microservices mistake isn't picking the wrong transport. It's misreading who is resp...
#distributedsystems#rpc#nats#grpc
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Siddharth Lal6d ago • 4 min read
Why Brute Force Fails: Scaling a Backend System Under Real-World Load
How I redesigned a distributed architecture to survive silent drops, strict rate limits, and...
#python#distributedsystems#programming#backend
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Karan KumarApr 13, 2026 • 5 min read
Scaling Vector Databases: How to Handle Billions of Embeddings
Your RAG application works perfectly with 1,000 documents. You push it to production, upload 10...
#systemdesign#vectordatabases#machinelearning#distributedsystems
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NasimApr 13, 2026 • 7 min read
Distributed Tracing and W3C Trace Context
When a user makes a single request to an application or clicks “checkout” on an e-commerce site, it....
#distributedsystems#microservices#monitoring#systemdesign
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Karan KumarApr 13, 2026 • 4 min read
How Epic Games Scales to 100M+ Concurrent Users
Your game just launched. A million players flood the servers in ten minutes. Suddenly, your...
#distributedsystems#gamedev#performance#systemdesign
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Art5d ago • 7 min read
Atesti para Dana — The Currency That Starts With Giving, Not Debt
An alternative currency that needs no bank, no blockchain wallet, no government - just three people....
#opensource#community#alternativeeconomy#distributedsystems
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longtk263d ago • 4 min read
Overview: Change Data Capture (CDC)
Overview: Change Data Capture (CDC) Welcome! In this post, we'll explore Change Data...
#database#dataengineering#distributedsystems#systemdesign
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codelluis1d ago • 4 min read
I Killed a Python Worker Mid-Task. Here's What Should Have Happened.
I ran kill -9 on a worker that was processing three tasks. They vanished. No error. No retry. I...
#python#backend#distributedsystems#opensource
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Prithvi SApr 13, 2026 • 7 min read
How Apache Iceberg's Metadata Architecture Enables ACID at Scale
When you have a petabyte of data across millions of files in cloud storage, how do you ensure that.....
#architecture#database#dataengineering#distributedsystems
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Ryan1d ago • 2 min read
I'm building a censorship-resistant social network in Rust — and I need your help
Most social platforms have a kill switch. Someone, somewhere, can throttle your reach, suspend your....
#distributedsystems#opensource#rust#showdev
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Pedro Santos4d ago • 4 min read
Why Sagas (and Why Not Distributed Transactions)
You have 5 microservices. An order comes in. You need to validate the product, charge the customer,....
#architecture#distributedsystems#microservices#systemdesign
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slaveoftime1d ago • 2 min read
I fixed Open Relay's cross-node notification path so human checkpoints reach the primary
I fixed Open Relay's cross-node notification path so human checkpoints reach the primary I...
#architecture#cli#devjournal#distributedsystems
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