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• The Complete Guide to Partitioning and Sharding: The Order for Moving Past a Single Node

  A look at what declarative partitioning in PostgreSQL 18 actually solves and does not solve, then the criteria for moving from partitioning to sharding once partitioning hits its limit. Covers partition pruning, the cons

  2026-08-15 · 19 min read #database#postgresql#partitioning#sharding#scalability

• Your Deploy Is the Load Test — What Happens When Nobody Designs the Cost of Seeding the Cache

  A walk through how Canva moved the in-memory session revocation cache in its gateway from MySQL to S3. The problem was not the steady-state lookup cost but the startup cost of hundreds of pods seeding their caches simult

  2026-08-09 · 8 min read #architecture#caching#s3#scalability#deployment

• WebSocket, SSE, and Polling — Choosing a Realtime Transport, and Why Most Cases Do Not Need WebSocket

  Most requirements labelled realtime turn out to be one-directional delivery from server to client, and in that case SSE is far simpler than WebSocket while running on the HTTP infrastructure you already have. Automatic r

  2026-07-26 · 13 min read #web#websocket#server-sent-events#realtime#scalability

• System Design Fundamentals — Scalability, Availability, Caching, and Message Queues

  Core concepts for designing large-scale systems. Horizontal/vertical scaling, load balancing, caching, message queues, database design, and the CAP theorem.

  2026-04-12 · 17 min read #architecture#system-design#scalability#caching#message-queue

• System Design Interview Complete Guide 2025: Scalable Architecture, Availability, and Design Patterns

  Everything about system design interviews! 4-step framework, scalability (horizontal/vertical), load balancing, caching (Redis/CDN), DB sharding, CAP theorem, message queues, real-world designs (URL Shortener/Twitter/Net

  2026-03-25 · 21 min read #system-design#scalability#availability#load-balancing#caching

• System Design Interview 2025: Top 30 FAANG Questions and the New AI/ML Design Round

  70%+ of senior candidates face system design rounds. 80% of questions focus on 20% of core concepts. Complete guide covering 2025 new AI/ML system design questions, real-time systems (18/30 problems), and the 45-minute f

  2026-03-22 · 23 min read #system-design#interview#faang#architecture#scalability