Oct 24, 2025 · 6 min read · Introduction In the world of data storage, engineers and architects constantly face a fundamental dilemma: the trade-off between performance and efficiency. It’s a balancing act. When you want to save space, you typically enable features like compres...
Join discussionOct 20, 2025 · 3 min read · Overview I recently used the Alerts feature in the Kite app and started wondering how does it work with respect to the high frequency/volume of price updates and user alerts. The bottleneck that pops up immediately is how are we going to match every ...
Join discussionOct 20, 2025 · 7 min read · 💡 Note - This writeup is generated by Gemini 2.5 Pro based upon my overall chat with it and referring the codebase implementation from GitHub Repo Building a High-Throughput Stock Alerting System: A Deep Dive into Distributed Architecture 💡 Proc...
Join discussionJul 9, 2025 · 8 min read · Stream processing systems have been widely adopted across industries, especially in latency-sensitive scenarios - such as ad recommendation and bidding, stock/crypto trading systems, cybersecurity monitoring, sports betting, and more. In these domain...
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Mar 29, 2025 · 3 min read · High Level Design RocksDB is a high-performance embedded database for key-value data, designed for fast storage. In this post, I'll show you how to create a simple master-follower replication setup using RocksDB's backup and restore functionality. P...
Join discussionOct 21, 2024 · 4 min read · When considering constructing a system, we often default to using complex databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle DB, SQL Server, or MongoDB without pausing to consider if a simpler system would suffice for managing our data. These have become the d...
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Oct 18, 2024 · 15 min read · “Where is part one?” asked the reader. Part one was written by Artem Krylysov and is a prerequisite to understanding this article. You can find part one here. I’d like to mention that besides introducing a disk-based persistence layer for the projec...
Join discussionJan 26, 2024 · 1 min read · To configure the rocksdb_strict_capacity_limit and rocksdb_soft_pending_compaction_bytes_limit variables in Percona Server for MySQL for memory management: rocksdb_strict_capacity_limit: This variable, when enabled, enforces a strict limit on the am...
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Jan 25, 2024 · 3 min read · Tuning the available RAM for thread cache performance in RocksDB, a high-performance key-value store, is crucial for optimizing its overall performance. The thread cache in RocksDB is primarily controlled by the Block Cache setting, which determines ...
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Apr 6, 2021 · 10 min read · Chào mừng các bạn đến với series “Thanh tra ma giáo” – chuỗi bài viết chuyên điều tra và đánh giá các công nghệ trên thị trường. Mở đầu series, tôi xin giới thiệu ứng viên đầu tiên: Dgraph – một Graph Database nằm trong top 10 bảng xếp hạng DB-Engine...
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