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Articles tagged with #system-design
When people talk about system design, the conversation usually focuses on scalability or reliability. But in reality, many systems don’t fail because they cannot scale.They fail because they become to
Modern systems rarely fail because they are badly written. More often, they fail because they cannot handle growth. A system that works perfectly with 1,000 users may completely collapse when the user
When a system goes down, users don’t care whether it was a server crash, a bug, or a configuration mistake. All they see is one thing: “The app is not working.” That moment when users can’t use the system is what truly matters. And preventing that mo...
When people hear REST, they often think it simply means “an HTTP endpoint that returns JSON.” But REST is much more than that. It’s a way of designing interactions between clients and servers, not a library or a framework. Let’s break REST down in a ...
Sharding vs Partitioning: What’s the Real Difference? As applications grow, databases often become the first bottleneck. Queries slow down, writes queue up, and suddenly the system that worked fine yesterday starts struggling today. Two common techni...
Microservices are everywhere today. Almost every modern system design discussion eventually reaches the question: “Should we move to microservices?” Before answering that, it’s important to understand what microservices really are, how they differ fr...
