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Top Scalability Strategies for Real-World Load
In modern distributed systems, scalability is not a nice-to-have. Whether serving a global user base or responding to a viral spike, systems that fail…
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How Uber Eats Deduplicates Hundreds of Millions of Product Images
At the scale of Uber Eats, image handling is an operational necessity. The platform manages hundreds of millions of product images, with millions of…
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How LLMs See the World
Tokens are what rule the world of LLMs. You send tokens to models, you pay by the token, and models read, understand, and breathe tokens.
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EP174: 16 Coding Patterns That Make Interviews Easy
Which other coding pattern will you add to the list?
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July 2025

Top Leader Election Algorithms in Distributed Databases
A database needs to be sure about who the leader is at any given time, that the leader is sufficiently up to date, and that a new leader can be chosen…
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How Cursor Serves Billions of AI Code Completions Every Day
In this article, we will take a look at the key features of Cursor, how those features work, and the infrastructure stack that powers it.
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EP173: BIGGEST Mistakes to Avoid in System Design Interviews
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that simplifies how AI models, particularly LLMs, interact with external data sources, tools, and…
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Consistency and Partition Tolerance: Understanding CAP vs PACELC
In this article, we will look at these two models as they apply to real-world database design and understand the various trade-offs involved.
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How Nubank Uses AI Models to Analyze Transaction Data for 100M Users
Nubank adopted a foundation model-based approach, which has already been transforming domains like natural language processing and computer vision.
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EP172: Top 5 common ways to improve API performance
What other ways do you use to improve API performance?
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A Guide to Database Sharding: Key Strategies
This article looks at the fundamentals of database sharding. We cover details like why it matters, how it works, and what trade-offs come with it. We’ll…
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How Tinder’s API Gateway Handles A Billion Swipes Per Day
Tinder operates globally. Real user traffic pours in from over 190 countries. So does bad traffic that includes bots, scrapers, and abuse attempts.
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