Feb 11 · 4 min read · Welcome back to our System Design Series. If you’ve ever built an application that started small but suddenly gained a surge of traffic, you’ve likely faced the "Scaling Wall." Your server is gasping for air, latency is spiking, and your users are se...
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Jan 26 · 3 min read · In the dev world, we often talk about "Data Sovereignty"—the idea that data is subject to the laws and governance structures within the nation it is collected. But on a personal level, data sovereignty is about ownership. If you are using a standard ...
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Jan 2 · 4 min read · In November 2025, prediction market platform Kalshi completed a $1 billion funding round at a $11 billion valuation, led by Sequoia Capital and Alphabet’s CapitalG. Once regarded by regulators as a “disguised gambling” business, how did Kalshi gain l...
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Dec 17, 2025 · 4 min read · As DevOps engineers, we often get caught up in the high-level tools—Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins. We treat the server as a black box that just "runs things." But to truly master the cloud, you have to understand the engine that powers it all: The Linu...
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Nov 14, 2025 · 8 min read · If you've ever built a travel booking application or worked with travel industry APIs, you've probably noticed something frustrating: response times are... not great. I'm talking 500ms to 3+ second API response times, sometimes longer. For context, m...
Join discussionSep 17, 2025 · 5 min read · Introduction In the era of 24/7 media and constant digital noise, the ability to process and act on real-time information is crucial. For any system designed to monitor, classify, and enhance media content, scalable ingestion pipelines are the backbo...
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Aug 16, 2025 · 7 min read · Table of Contents Introduction Overview of the Role of Technical Architects Importance of Tailored Prompts System Design and Architecture Solution Architecture Design Microservices Architecture Cloud Architecture Design Technical Document...
Join discussionFeb 21, 2025 · 3 min read · Pinterest System Design Pinterest is a widely used visual discovery platform where users can explore, save, and share images (called "Pins"). In this article, we’ll go through the fundamental aspects of Pinterest’s system design, covering requirement...
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