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In this article, we explain what distributed deadlocks are, how they differ from blocking and slowness, the main types of distributed deadlocks, and practical strategies to prevent them in real systems.

Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.

A practical guide to the Outbox and Inbox patterns for reliable asynchronous messaging in distributed systems. Learn how Outbox ensures safe event publishing and Inbox ensures idempotent event processing, with step-by-step diagrams and implementation insights.

This week: NoSQL interview questions and answers, YouTube Shorts generation via AI, Pinterest’s recommendation quality improvements, and Uber’s real-time OLAP with Apache Pinot.

This article explains how to identify service boundaries using Domain-Driven Design and Bounded Contexts. It shows how to move from a messy business domain to clear, well-defined contexts, and then to microservices, using a realistic domain map and bounded context diagrams

This chapter explores NoSQL Databases questions that  .NET engineers should be able to answer in an interview.

This week, we look at consistency models in distributed systems, Uber’s adaptive benchmarking framework, LinkedIn’s evolution of its Venice ingestion pipeline, and Meta’s new open-source platform for adaptive experimentation.

Weekly tech digest: CAP theorem basics, Uber’s probabilistic heatmaps, Dropbox’s context-aware AI, and Lyft’s modern ML platform architecture.

An article with a comparison between the dot-com bubble and today’s AI boom, highlighting the hype, the parallels, the fundamental differences, and why some AI companies will thrive while others will vanish during the inevitable market correction.

In this article, we explore practical patterns for data versioning and schema evolution in NoSQL systems.

This week: MongoDB best practices, Netflix’s ML platform, Uber’s I/O observability at petabyte scale, and Google’s Coral NPU for edge AI.

 Walk through consistency models in distributed systems: Strong, bounded staleness, session, causal, and eventual consistency, explain how they work with examples, and help you understand when each model makes sense.

In this article, we explain the CAP theorem in simple terms: what Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance mean, why you can’t have all three, and how real systems balance them in practice.

This week, we dive into SQL performance tips, Uber’s approach to fault-tolerant analytics, and how TikTok cut AI costs in half with smart caching.

Practical MongoDB best practices guide for developers. Covers schema design, indexing, performance, queries, transactions, sharding, and common mistakes with examples and links to official docs.

This week: SQL interview prep for .NET engineers, Geocodio’s geocoding scalability journey, Netflix’s real-time live recommendations, and Airbnb’s LLM-powered GraphQL mocking.

Practical SQL best practices for developers and DBAs. Learn how to design clean schemas, write readable and efficient queries, avoid common mistakes, and keep your database secure and fast

This chapter explores SQL Database questions that  .NET engineers should be able to answer in an interview.

Weekly tech digest: pagination strategies for large datasets, Uber’s rebuilt Apache Pinot query architecture, and Meta’s ML-based notification ranking system for Instagram.

Learn efficient SQL pagination techniques: offset, keyset, cursor, snapshot, hybrid & more. Understand trade-offs, use cases, and best practices.