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NIkhil SahniMay 22, 2026 • 8 min read
Persistent Agents, Persistent Risk: What Google I/O 2026 Actually Changed
This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge:...
#googleiochallenge#devchallenge#ai#systemdesign
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TejasMay 24, 2026 • 5 min read
Under the Hood: Demystifying Database Internals (InnoDB vs. ARCHIVE)
Most developers treat database engines as black boxes: you write a query, and data magically returns...
#systemdesign#database#intenal#systems
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Timothy OpangoMay 23, 2026 • 3 min read
Rugby Fundamentals as Software Concepts - Mapping the Pitch to your Code Base
Welcome back to the series and as stated earlier, I am a developer who lives and breathes both clean...
#architecture#softwaredevelopment#softwareengineering#systemdesign
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Shoumik ChakravartyMay 26, 2026 • 11 min read
Microservices Patterns
Microservices Patterns: A Practical Guide to Choosing the Right Architecture Most teams...
#microservices#architecture#systemdesign#cloud
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Joud AwadMay 28, 2026 • 1 min read
22/30 Days System Design Questions
Your payment service just charged a customer. It writes to the DB. Now it needs to tell the...
#systemdesign#distributedsystems#architecture#softwareengineering
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Joud AwadMay 23, 2026 • 2 min read
18/30 Days System Design Questions!
Your Redis cache just expired on a key that 8,000 users hit every second. Every single one of those....
#systemdesign#distributedsystems#designsystem
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PlayOverseMay 24, 2026 • 3 min read
🏆 From Pipelines to Agents: What Google I/O 2026 Forced Me to Rethink in My Architecture
This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge The fundamental shift: Moving from...
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Joud AwadMay 24, 2026 • 1 min read
19/30 Days System Design Questions!
Your checkout endpoint has a 400ms P95. Profiling shows 70% of that is DB reads. You add a read...
#architecture#database#distributedsystems#systemdesign
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Damola AdegbiteMay 27, 2026 • 6 min read
How Would I Build a Payment System That Doesn't Lose Money
This is the first post in a series I'm calling How Would I Build. I take a real engineering problem,...
#systemdesign#backend#programming#codenewbie
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aashna mahajanMay 24, 2026 • 7 min read
I Failed My First System Design Interviews. These 5 Concepts Were Why.
I failed three system design interviews in a row. Not because I didn't know the concepts. I knew...
#systemdesign#webdev#career#interview
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Hari SathwikMay 23, 2026 • 6 min read
Why 91% of AI Agents Fail in Production (And What the 9% Do Differently)
Everyone is building AI agents right now. Autonomous systems that reason, plan, and act without...
#ai#mlops#systemdesign#productionai
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Mehmet TURAÇMay 28, 2026 • 8 min read
Architecture of Chaos: Taming a Planet-Scale Financial Beast (Part 1 — Lying Clocks & Vector Clocks)
"Selim, you have six months. In six months, the system either goes planet-scale, or we go bankrupt.....
#systemdesign#distributedsystems#architecture#backend
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Mehmet TURAÇMay 28, 2026 • 6 min read
Architecture of Chaos Part 4 (Finale) — Split-Brain Surgery, Chaos Engineering, and Shipping to Production
Cell-Based Architecture for GDPR, Hybrid Logical Clocks (the poor man's TrueTime), fencing zombie le...
#systemdesign#distributedsystems#devops#architecture
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Subhan FarrakhMay 26, 2026 • 3 min read
Architecture Decisions That Prevent Technical Debt
Boundaries, contracts, and constraints that keep codebases maintainable.
#architecture#systemdesign#programming
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Mehmet TURAÇMay 28, 2026 • 6 min read
Architecture of Chaos Part 2 — CAP Is Dead, Long Live PACELC (and CRDTs That Actually Work)
This is Part 2 of the Architecture of Chaos series. Start from Part 1 here. ⚠️ Names, companies,.....
#systemdesign#distributedsystems#architecture#database
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Scalable ThoughtsMay 25, 2026 • 15 min read
System Design Interview: Decentralized Web Crawler
How to design a distributed web crawler using a DHT ring. Covers consistent hashing, finger table ro...
#systemdesign#programming#webdev#softwareengineering
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Alberto Luiz SouzaMay 25, 2026 • 7 min read
Entidades finas e composição: o design que escolhi para a nova plataforma
Disclaimer Este texto foi inicialmente concebido pela IA Generativa em função da...
#architecture#backend#softwareengineering#systemdesign
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Machine coding MasterMay 27, 2026 • 2 min read
Why Your eBPF Profiler Lies to You About Java Virtual Threads
Why Your eBPF Profiler Lies to You About Java Virtual Threads In 2026, virtual threads are...
#java#concurrency#systemdesign#computerscience
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Emmanuel OnuiteshiMay 25, 2026 • 12 min read
Scaling to 1 Million Users : Load Balancing & Caching Strategies
You build a URL shortener in a weekend. It works perfectly. Then it goes viral. At first it’s just...
#architecture#backend#performance#systemdesign
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Hammad KhanMay 22, 2026 • 7 min read
A Domain-Driven Notification Microservice — Patterns From Production
Notifications start small. "Send the user an email when their order ships." A function. A library......
#systemdesign#microservices#ddd#node
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Mehmet TURAÇMay 28, 2026 • 6 min read
Architecture of Chaos Part 3 — Event Sourcing Saved Our Audit Trail, Then a Fiber Cable Broke
Why CRDTs can't handle financial ledgers, how Event Sourcing made auditors thank us for the first ti...
#systemdesign#eventsourcing#architecture#backend
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钟智强May 23, 2026 • 1 min read
「交易系统微服务架构」千万级请求下的零信任事件溯源设计实录
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#architecture#microservices#security#systemdesign
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James LeeMay 26, 2026 • 10 min read
Serverless Best Practices: Production Architecture, Stateless Design & Cost Optimization
Over the past six articles, we've covered how Lambda works internally — cold starts, triggers,...
#architecture#aws#serverless#systemdesign
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Venkatesan RamarMay 26, 2026 • 11 min read
CQRS: Where It Helps and Where It Hurts in Backend Systems
CQRS has been one of the most talked-about architectural patterns in modern backend systems. Over th...
#distributedsystems#architecture#systemdesign#eventdriven
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