Latency vs Throughput
Why they fight each other
Dec 23, 20257 min read33
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Performance & State
This series covers the concepts required to understand performance of a system and how state plays a vital role in it.
Scaling & Load Balancing
Horizontal vs vertical scaling and the role of load balancing
Dec 29, 20259 min read23
State in a System
Explained through a simple example of a login system
Jan 5, 202610 min read26
Caching: Performance vs Consistency
Every computing system, no matter how low level or high level, is constrained by the same fundamental problem: fetching data takes time. Computation itself is fast, but fetching data is slow. A modern CPU is extraordinarily fast. But what slows a sys...
Jan 12, 202610 min read6
Why Distributed Systems Can't Know What's Happening
Uncertainty, Timeouts, Retries and Side Effects
Jan 19, 20269 min read14
Idempotency
Making Systems Correct Under Retries and Concurrency
Jan 26, 20269 min read5