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How Halo on Xbox Scaled to 10+ Million Players using the Saga Pattern

One powerful pattern for solving this problem is the Saga Pattern, a technique originally proposed in the late 1980s but increasingly relevant today.

May 6 •

How Canva Collects 25 Billion Events a Day

This article walks through how Canva structures, collects, and distributes billions of events daily, without drowning in tech debt and increasing cloud…

May 5 •

EP161: A Cheatsheet on REST API Design Best Practices

Well-designed APIs behave consistently, fair predictably, and grow without friction.

May 3 •

Synchronous vs Asynchronous Communication: When to Use What?

At some point, every system has to make a call: Should this interaction happen synchronously or asynchronously?

May 1 •

April 2025

How Meta Built Threads to Support 100 Million Signups in 5 Days

When a new app hits 100 million signups in under a week, the instinct is to assume someone built a miracle backend overnight.

Apr 29 •

How WhatsApp Handles 40 Billion Messages Per Day

In this article, we’ll take a technical dive into how WhatsApp built its architecture and the challenges the engineering team faced during this journey.

Apr 28 •

EP160: Top 20 System Design Concepts You Should Know

Load Balancing: Distributes traffic across multiple servers for reliability and availability.

Apr 26 •

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Demystified

Most software doesn’t break because of syntax errors or flawed if-else logic.

Apr 24 •

How DoorDash’s In-House Search Engine Achieved a 50% Drop in Latency

🚀Faster mobile releases with automated QA (Sponsored)

Apr 22 •

How Airbnb Powers Personalization With 1M Events Per Second

Personalizing an experience meaningfully, especially across a product as broad as Airbnb, requires understanding users while they interact with the app.

Apr 21 •

EP159: The Data Engineering Roadmap

Data engineering has become the backbone of effective data analysis. It involves managing, processing, and optimizing data to derive actionable…

Apr 19 •

Coupling and Cohesion: The Two Principles for Effective Architecture

Every large system that spirals out of control starts the same way: small, functional, and deceptively simple.

Apr 17 •

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