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How Monzo and DoorDash integrate external libraries with their code and how do web-scale companies manage a large number of microservices
Monzo, a UK-based online bank, recently shared insights into how they run migrations across 2800 microservices.
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Shivang Sarawagi

August 2024

Kafka tiered-storage at Uber and using it as a system of record
Kafka is heavily used in Uber's tech stack, serving several critical use cases, including batch and real-time systems.
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How Zerodha scaled from zero to 11 million users: Key takeaways
Zerodha (India's largest stockbroker) recently gave a talk on YouTube on how they scaled from zero to 11M users.
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July 2024

The thought process behind picking the right database for our service with a reference checklist
Picture the below data persistence requirements: The DB should be able to handle a minimum of 1.5 million RPS (Request Per Second) with 1 million writes…
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Coding projects for software developers - Part 2 - Build components and plumb them together
This is part two of my coding projects for developers post series. Do check out part one, which is the introductory part containing eight…
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How to wrap our heads around large codebases and open-source GitHub repositories
When we face an unfamiliar large codebase either at our workplace or an open-source GitHub repository, our first thought is, 'How do I understand the…
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Coding projects for software developers: Let’s get some hands-on practice – Part 1
Hello! Below is an aggregated list of software projects I am putting together that we can code over the weekend or over a span of a few days on the…
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May 2024

Distributed Programming Part 3 - Enabling Our Server to Handle Concurrent Requests By Implementing a Multithreaded TCP/IP Server
In my previous post, I implemented a bare-bones single-threaded TCP/IP server, helping us understand the intricacies of client-server communication over…
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Shivang Sarawagi

April 2024

March 2024

Distributed Programming Part 1 - Coding Distributed Systems from the Bare Bones
Hello there, welcome to this introductory post on distributed programming.
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Shivang Sarawagi

February 2024

System Design Case Study #5: Serverless Compute & Storage At the Edge With Stateless & Stateful Functions
Picture a scenario where we need to set up the inventory management infrastructure globally across different cloud regions for a massive sports apparel…
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Shivang Sarawagi

January 2024

System Design Case Study #4: How Shopify Implemented Read Consistency Across Their Database Replicas For A Consistent User Experience
Shopify leverages DB replication for redundancy and failure recovery, in addition to setting up read replicas as an alternative read-only data source…
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