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What Went Wrong in My Distributed Sensor System — And What It Taught Me

I'm a noob to distributed systems — and I learned that the hard way. Distributed architecture had always interested me, so I decided to refactor one of my projects into a microservice-based system des

10h ago9 min read

YMYohan Martinwriteaheadblog.hashnode.dev

The first (b)log entry

What do I do? I am a Software Development Engineer on MicroBus Journal team. Officially, my role is "Senior Software Engineer"(aka SDE-3), which means I get to influence the team and org charter, lead

1d ago3 min read

TKTay Kimtaykim.hashnode.dev

Raft

Distributed systems should be fault tolerant - we want the system to stay available and continue operating "correctly" even when some nodes fail. One way to do this is to run replicas, so that if the

1d ago12 min read

NDNishant Desaiurl-shortener-system-design-guide.hashnode.dev

How to Design a Production-Ready URL Shortener (Like Bitly) – Complete System Design Guide

Designing systems at scale is not just about writing code. It’s about handling millions of users, ensuring consistency, preventing race conditions, and keeping latency low. In this blog, we’ll design a production-level URL Shortener system using a st...

4d ago9 min read

SBSwami Buddha Chaitanyachaiitanyacodes.hashnode.dev

Senior Engineers Don’t Trust ACID: 6 Hard Truths About Database Transactions

On localhost, we code for a fantasy where hardware is immortal and networks are perfect. Production is a violent correction. Packets drop, disks fail, and race conditions trigger 3 AM nightmares. Transactions are our attempt to tame this chaos, but ...

6d ago7 min read

DEDestiny Erhaborfreecodecamp.org

How to Build a Production-Grade Distributed Chatroom in Go [Full Handbook]

If you've ever wondered how chat applications like Slack, Discord, or WhatsApp work behind the scenes, this tutorial will show you. You'll build a real-time chat server from scratch using Go, learning the fundamental concepts that power modern commun...

Feb 1345 min read

GGayathrienergyatit.hashnode.dev

Why Now? Five Convergences Driving Programmable Energy Infrastructure

Energy-as-a-Service via API sounds obvious in hindsight. But infrastructure doesn’t move on ideas — it moves on timing. In distributed systems, you can’t commit a transaction until quorum is reached. Four out of five nodes ready? The system blocks. N...

Feb 125 min read

S(Subhashish (Subh) Bhattacharjeebytefreak.dev

When Bloom Filters Fail: False Positives, Memory Trade-offs, Production Lessons

In my previous article, Bloom Filter: Definitely No, Probably Yes, we saw that a Bloom filter acts like a ‘magic’ toolbox to perform quick operations on large datasets to determine whether a value is certainly not in the set. However, this 'definitel...

Feb 113 min read

SPSuman Prasadblogs.sumanprasad.in

Why Systems Fail - And How Reliable Systems Survive

When a system goes down, users don’t care whether it was a server crash, a bug, or a configuration mistake. All they see is one thing: “The app is not working.” That moment when users can’t use the system is what truly matters. And preventing that mo...

Feb 114 min read