15h ago · 8 min read · The Problem With Most URL Shortener Tutorials Search "URL shortener system design" and you'll find hundreds of articles. Most of them give you the same thing: a single server, a database with a short_
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14h ago · 3 min read · For years, the idea of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) has been everywhere. Build fast.Launch early.Fix things later. That playbook worked for apps.It worked for SaaS.It worked for e-commerce experim
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1d ago · 11 min read · A deep dive into building a shared-schema multi-tenant SaaS — the decisions we made, the ones we got wrong, and what we'd do differently. When I started building a multi-tenant SaaS platform for the
Join discussion1d ago · 2 min read · A few months ago I was working on a system architecture for a project and needed to diagram it out. I opened the usual suspects, draw.io, Excalidraw, Lucidchart. All either too generic, paywalled for
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2d ago · 13 min read · Airbnb recently published a detailed write-up on Mussel v2, the next generation of their internal key-value store for serving derived data. The system sits between offline data processing and online a
Join discussion2d ago · 6 min read · Every function you have ever written is a lie. Or at least, that is what a mathematician would say if they looked at most production code. In mathematics, a function has a strict definition: a relatio
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