System Design
Practical notes on system design, software architecture, and the engineering decisions behind resilient systems.
- What a Power Cut Taught Me About Rate Limiting
A power cut brought me back to a book and into the questions behind rate limiting, shared counters, and concurrent requests.
- What happens if a lot of cache expires at the same time?
Some techniques we can use to reduce or prevent a cache stampede.
- How to reduce the stress on database
- What happens when we enter www.google.com?
How a browser reaches a website and how an application begins to scale.