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ARAritro Royaritro.hashnode.dev16h ago · 22 min read

I Couldn't Overwhelm My Chess Server. I Could Only Overwhelm My Load Tester.

TL;DR Took a hobby Rust chess engine and turned it into a horizontally-scalable, fault-tolerant multiplayer server. The chess was never the hard part; where the game lives and what happens when a ser

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YEYves Eychenneyeychenne.hashnode.dev2h ago · 9 min read

I reimplemented a CAP-aware total-order broadcast protocol in Rust and verified it six ways

In the early 1990s, in a research lab at Cegelec near Paris, a small team I was part of built a way to keep industrial control systems running through hardware failures — the kind that supervise power

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AAAli Asgaraliasgarmkantawala.hashnode.dev18h ago · 8 min read

How to Design an Event-Driven Analytics Pipeline — A System Design Deep Dive

Interview prep series: real problems, real trade-offs, no hand-waving. The Problem Worth Solving Here's a scenario straight from a fintech startup I worked at. We had field agents responsible for onb

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PMPeace Melodipeacemelodi.hashnode.dev1d ago · 5 min read

Building a Flash Sale Engine That Cannot Oversell: Distributed Locking and Optimistic Concurrency in NestJS

The problem flash sales create Flash sales create one of the most unforgiving concurrency problems in backend engineering. Thousands of people request the same limited stock in the same instant. If tw

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VVinayvinay206.hashnode.dev3d ago · 10 min read

CAP, PACELC, ACID, and Consistency Models: The One Trade-off Hiding Behind Four Names

If you've spent any time around distributed systems, you've run into CAP theorem, PACELC, ACID, and "consistency models" as four separate topics to memorize. They're not separate. They're the same und

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KKKushneet Kaurcloudnativebykushneet.hashnode.dev3d ago · 6 min read

The Open Source Republic "CNCF"

This article is part of the Cloud Native from Scratch series — where I document my journey learning cloud native technologies from scratch, one concept at a time. Start from the beginning: Containers

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AAAli Asgaraliasgarmkantawala.hashnode.dev3d ago · 5 min read

Why Daily Transaction Volume is the Wrong Number to Quote in System Design Interviews

The Mistake Most Candidates Make Picture this: You are in a system design interview. The interviewer asks you to design a ledger system or a payment settlement pipeline. Eager to show you can handle s

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AEAhmed Eid Abdallaheidox.hashnode.dev4d ago · 5 min read

RabbitMQ was Never Our Job Runner. We Stopped Mixing Communication with Execution.

Hello, my name is Ahmed Eid (eidoox), a Senior Backend Engineer with over 3 years of experience building reliable, scalable, distributed, and real-time systems. In this Production Insight, I want to s

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IDIgboanugo David Ugochukwudavidigboanugo.hashnode.dev6d ago · 11 min read

Beyond the Login: Why API Security Now Lives in Behavior, Not Authentication

There's a moment that keeps recurring in breach post-mortems over the last two years, and it's never the moment anyone expects. It isn't a cracked password. It isn't a phished MFA code. It's a token —

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AAAbbas Afsharfarniaabbas-code.hashnode.devJun 15 · 8 min read

The 11-Step System Design Process I Use Before Designing Any System 🚀

System design can feel messy when you jump straight into databases, queues, caches, cloud services, and architecture diagrams. The better approach? Use a repeatable process. Before choosing Kafka, Red

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I Couldn't Overwhelm My Chess Server. I Could Only Overwhelm My Load Tester.

I reimplemented a CAP-aware total-order broadcast protocol in Rust and verified it six ways

How to Design an Event-Driven Analytics Pipeline — A System Design Deep Dive

Building a Flash Sale Engine That Cannot Oversell: Distributed Locking and Optimistic Concurrency in NestJS

CAP, PACELC, ACID, and Consistency Models: The One Trade-off Hiding Behind Four Names

The Open Source Republic "CNCF"

Why Daily Transaction Volume is the Wrong Number to Quote in System Design Interviews

RabbitMQ was Never Our Job Runner. We Stopped Mixing Communication with Execution.

Beyond the Login: Why API Security Now Lives in Behavior, Not Authentication

The 11-Step System Design Process I Use Before Designing Any System 🚀