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Horizontally Scaling a Rails Backend with Vitess
An engineering breakdown of distributed consensus, latency isolation, and Raft failover topologies.
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kishoreGuest•Oct 02, 2026 5m 13
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Designing High-Performance Distributed Systems
An engineering breakdown of distributed consensus, latency isolation, and Raft failover topologies.
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kishoreGuest•Oct 02, 2026 5m 6
System DesignADVANCED
FeaturedDesigning a Distributed Rate Limiter with Redis and Lua Scripts
A deep dive into sub-millisecond sliding window counter algorithms, token buckets, and coordinating distributed rate limiting across multi-region API gateways.
Alex Rivera•Sep 28, 2026 12m 14207
DatabasesADVANCED
FeaturedZero-Downtime PostgreSQL Schema Migrations at Scale
Understanding lock queues, ACCESS EXCLUSIVE table locks, expand-contract patterns, and executing safe DDL operations on production databases under heavy concurrency.
Elena Rostova•Sep 25, 2026 9m 22404
Distributed SystemsADVANCED
FeaturedKafka Partitioning Strategies for Zero-Data-Loss Architectures
Guaranteed message ordering, consumer group rebalancing internals, and handling backpressure in distributed event stream pipelines.
Alex Rivera•Sep 21, 2026 15m 9804
