Picture this: You're running a successful e-commerce platform. What started as a few hundred orders per day has exploded to millions. Your single database server, once handling queries with ease,…
Picture this: You're in a system design interview, and the interviewer asks, "How would you design an authorization system for a platform like Discord that needs to check if millions…
It's 2 AM, and I'm debugging what should have been a simple feature. My coffee has gone cold, my eyes are burning, and I'm staring at a network tab that…
If you've ever found yourself staring at a massive switch statement or a series of if-else chains that seems to grow longer every time a new requirement comes in, you're…
Introduction In distributed systems, particularly in database design and data storage systems, engineers often face challenging trade-offs. The RUM Conjecture, introduced by Athanassoulis et al. in 2016, provides a framework…
Introduction Monotonic reads is a crucial consistency model in distributed systems that every senior engineer should thoroughly understand, especially when preparing for technical interviews at leading tech companies. This concept…
Introduction If you're preparing for system design interviews at top tech companies, understanding distributed systems concepts is crucial. One fundamental concept that often comes up is quorum-based systems. In this…