System Design

Top 10 Kafka Use Cases

Apache Kafka began its journey at LinkedIn as an internal tool designed to collect and process massive amounts of log data efficiently.

Mar 27 •

Ashish Pratap Singh

Design Instagram - System Design Interview

With over 2 billion monthly active users, Instagram is the 3rd most popular social network after Facebook and YouTube.

Mar 20 •

Ashish Pratap Singh

Top 15 Database Scaling Techniques

When your application is small, with just a few hundred users, a single database server is usually enough to handle all the reads, writes, and…

Mar 16 •

Ashish Pratap Singh

REST vs GraphQL

Which one should you use?

Mar 11 •

Ashish Pratap Singh

I created a FREE Low Level Design (LLD) Interview Resource

I’m excited to share that you can now prepare for Low-Level Design (LLD) Interviews for FREE at algomaster.io.

Mar 9 •

Ashish Pratap Singh

What is a Content Delivery Network?

The thing that accelerates the internet

Mar 4 •

Ashish Pratap Singh

Design Uber - System Design Interview

The concept of ride-hailing has transformed how we travel.

Feb 27 •

Ashish Pratap Singh

5 Books Every Software Engineer Should Read (at least once)

During my Software Engineering career, I have come across and read many coding and software engineering books, but there are a few that I keep coming…

Feb 25 •

Ashish Pratap Singh

Top 10 Redis Use Cases

Explained with Code

Feb 20 •

Ashish Pratap Singh

Consistent Hashing Explained

Why traditional hashing doesn't work in distributed systems

Feb 18 •

Ashish Pratap Singh

Stateful vs. Stateless Architecture

When a client interacts with a server, there are two ways to handle it:

Feb 11 •

Ashish Pratap Singh

Design a Real-Time Gaming Leaderboard - System Design Interview

A Gaming Leaderboard is a ranked list of players, typically sorted by a specific metric such as score, points or level.

Feb 6 •

Ashish Pratap Singh

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