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Architecture Notes is Now on Substack!
Learn what's changing (and what's not) as we join the Substack Network!
May 21
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January 2023
Technical Debt
How does technical debt accrue? Most people would say bad engineering. What is bad engineering? Inflexibility? Is one system engineered correctly to do…
Jan 26, 2023
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Locking and Contention
The lock mechanism is an integral part of any modern system. In software applications, locks are used to ensure that multiple users do not…
Jan 10, 2023
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December 2022
Capture the Flag
Join the Architecture Notes CTF and test your system design skills against participants from around the world. Solve challenges in distributed systems…
Dec 30, 2022
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Circuit Breakers
Circuit breakers are a vital component of any distributed system, helping to improve reliability and resilience by preventing failures from cascading…
Dec 20, 2022
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Database Sharding Explained
More features, active users, and data are collected daily. Your database is slowing your application. Many people don't understand database sharding…
Dec 12, 2022
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November 2022
Virtualization Explained
The development of cloud-native applications has become significantly influenced by container technology. Building secure and reliable systems requires…
Nov 13, 2022
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Load Balancers
As we scale systems, it's essential to realize the impact of all the components in our systems and how they interact. For example, load balancers…
Nov 2, 2022
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October 2022
12 Factor App Revisited
The Twelve-Factor App methodology is a methodology for building software-as-a-service applications by Adam Wiggins. We cover how they have since…
Oct 6, 2022
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Quorums
As you venture into more complicated architecture setups, there are a few things engineers sometimes don't understand when setting up consensus-based…
Oct 1, 2022
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September 2022
Types of Memory
There is often a level of focus on the bigger picture when it comes to system design, but we often don't think about the underlying components in these…
Sep 3, 2022
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Latency
Understanding latency is essential in all parts of our systems, including registers, main memory, disk, and network.
Sep 1, 2022
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