System Design Interview: Design a URL Shortener
The question “Design a URL shortener” is a classic system design interview problem. It appears simple on the…
Distributed Systems
Distributed systems engineering explained through practical architecture patterns and algorithms. Learn how Raft consensus, sidecars, ambassador services, anti-corruption layers, and polyglot microservices work in production.
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The Anti-Corruption Layer Pattern: A Practical Implementation in Golang, Docker
In the world of modern software architecture, systems rarely exist in isolation. Enterprise applications constantly interact with legacy…
The Ambassador Pattern: A Practical Implementation Using Golang, Docker, and Kubernetes
As distributed systems grow, the networking logic surrounding your services tends to grow with them. Retries, TLS termination,…
The Sidecar Pattern: A Practical Implementation Using Golang, Docker, and Kubernetes
Modern distributed systems are rarely built as single, monolithic processes. As applications break down into microservices, each service…
Raft Consensus Algorithm: Architecture, Usage, and Practical Go Implementation
Raft is a distributed consensus algorithm designed to be understandable, reliable, and practical for building fault-tolerant distributed systems. Introduced in 2014 by Diego…