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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This week: skip-level meeting insights, Uber’s standardized mobile analytics, event-driven architecture best practices, and double-booking solutions at scale.
Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.
Weekly tech digest: simple ACID guide, Uber’s HiveSync data lake replication, Atlassian’s new CI/CD platform, and Pinterest’s Moka data processing system.
This week in the Weekend Reading Digest: database normalization guides, Hotstar’s real-time emoji system, Uber’s safe monorepo deployments, and Expedia’s Iceberg Write-Audit-Publish workflow.
This week's Weekly tech digest features HealthTech trends, Netflix’s GraphQL evolution, Uber’s high-scale storage system, and Wix’s lessons from AI refactoring.
Weekly tech digest featuring Netflix’s evolution of data engineering, Booking.com’s insights on causal inference, and a critical take on layered software architectures.
Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.