Archive - Distributed Systems Made Easy!

Beating Tail Latency: How Golang Supercharges SwissTables with Extendible Hashing

Extendible hashing is a dynamic hashing technique that allows the hash table to grow and shrink gracefully as data is added or removed, without…

Jun 4 •

May 2025

SwissTables: High Performance HashMaps

Understand how SwissTables provide a major performance improvement using its innovative control word metadata and SIMD-powered lookups.

May 27 •

Fragile Base Class Problem: Composition over Inheritance

Why do we always hear "Composition Over Inheritance"? Let's discover some hidden pitfalls associated with Inheritance and why you should prefer a HAS-A…

May 14 •

May 2024

Database Intermediate Series: Change Data Capture(II)

Change Data Capture (CDC) refers to identifying and capturing changes made to data in a database and then delivering these changes in a format that…

May 28, 2024 •

April 2024

Database Intermediate Series: Change Data Capture(I)

Change Data Capture (CDC) refers to identifying and capturing changes made to data in a database and then delivering these changes in a format that…

Apr 22, 2024 •

Database Intermediate Series: SQL Isolation Levels Internals

MVCC plays a crucial role in enabling databases achieve isolation. Let's dive into Isolation using MVCC using practical examples.

Apr 2, 2024 •

March 2024

Database Basics Series: Understanding SQL Isolation Levels

Dive into how databases leverage Isolation Levels to provide you the flexibility to choose between high consistency and concurrency!

Mar 19, 2024 •

February 2024

Launching Architecting Real-World Distributed Systems Cohort!

Understand the thought process behind building real-world systems, from NFR's to tradeoffs. We'll go over different architectural patterns with examples…

Feb 9, 2024 •

Go Concurrency Series: Concurrency Patterns(II)

Understand how you could ensure that all goroutines stop working even if one of them fails, using Tomb and Context. Before that, understand how you…

Feb 2, 2024 •

January 2024

Go Concurrency Series: Concurrency Patterns

Dive into common concurrency patterns adopted in Golang, like the Worker Pool Pattern and the Pipeline Pattern.

Jan 22, 2024 •

Architecting Real-World Systems - For Mid - Senior Engineers

Understand the thought process behind building real-world systems, from NFR's to tradeoffs. We'll go over different architectural patterns with examples…

Jan 21, 2024 •

Go Concurrency Series: Deep Dive into Go Scheduler(III)

Dive deep into the internals of Go Scheduler and strengthen your understanding by building a layer 7 load balancer.

Jan 19, 2024 •

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