Tag: system-design

All the articles with the tag "system-design".

• Java Interview Prep #7: System Design — Junior to Senior

  Published: 10 Aug, 2026 |  at  10:25 AM

  System design is the senior capstone — a 45-minute judgment test. Process, capacity estimation, caching, CAP, scalability, and observability.

• Kafka: Lessons Only Production Can Teach You

  Published: 24 Jan, 2026 |  at  07:31 AM

  No Kafka tutorial prepares you for the 2 AM wake-up call when consumer lag spirals out of control. Hard-earned lessons about Kafka in production.

• High-Load System Design: Comprehensive Solutions from Front-end to Back-end

  Published: 21 Sep, 2025 |  at  04:32 AM

  A comprehensive guide to high-load system design: from frontend optimization, caching, query optimization, backend patterns, request management, to monitoring and autoscaling.

• Why Twilio Segment Said Goodbye to Microservices and Returned to Monolith

  Published: 20 Sep, 2025 |  at  04:31 AM

  Analyzing the Twilio Segment case study: from a microservices architecture with hundreds of services to the decision to return to a modular monolith.