This is a guest article by Stanislav Kozlovski, an Apache Kafka Committer. If you would like to connect with Stanislav, you can do so on Twitter and LinkedIn.Originally developed in LinkedIn during 2011, Apache Kafka is one of the most popular open-source Apache projects out there.

This blog post was written by Dedeepya Bonthu. This is a repost from her Medium article, approved by the author.In stadiums, sports fans love to express themselves by cheering for their favorite teams, holding up placards and team logos. Emoji’s allow fans at home to rapidly express

This blog post was written by Josh Clemm, Senior Director of Engineering at Uber Eats. This is a repost from his LinkedIn article, approved by the author.On a cold evening in Paris in 2008, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp couldn't get a cab. That's when

This is a guest article by Stanislav Kozlovski, an Apache Kafka Committer. If you would like to connect with Stanislav, you can do so on Twitter and LinkedIn.AWS S3 is a service every engineer is familiar with.It’s the service that popularized the notion of cold-storage to

This week I’ve been reading through the recent judgment from the Swedish FSA on the Swedbank outage. If you’re unfamiliar with this story, Swedbank had a major outage in April 2022 that was caused by an unapproved change to their IT systems. It temporarily left nearly

Presto is a free, open source SQL query engine. We’ve been using it at Meta for the past ten years, and learned a lot while doing so. Running anything at scale - tools, processes, services - takes problem solving to overcome unexpected challenges. Here are four things we

You can subscribe to the system design newsletter to excel in system design interviews and software architecture. The original article was published on systemdesign.one website.What Is Gossip Protocol?The typical problems in a distributed system are the following [1], [11]:maintaining the system sta...

You can subscribe to the system design newsletter to excel in system design interviews and software architecture.You can view the original article Consistent hashing explained on systemdesign.one website.How does consistent hashing work?At a high level, consistent hashing performs the following oper...

DALL-E picture generated from the answer.I was curious, given all the ChatGPT love, what it would make of some of our favorite topics. I was both impressed and unimpressed.Impressed. ChatGPT instantly generated an response that might make a good answer in a Miss Universe contest. You know, the

Never fear, HighScalability is here!1958: An engineer wiring an early IBM computer 2021: An engineer wiring an early IBM quantum computer. @enclanglementMy Stuff:I'm proud to announce a completely updated and expanded version of Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10! This version adds 2x

There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer.Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services.

Who's Hiring?Close is building the sales communication platform of the future and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us accomplish that goal. If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databas...

Never fear, HighScalability is here!Every cell a universe. Most detailed image of a human cell to date. @microscopictureOther images considered: one byte of RAM in 1946; visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes; Cloudflare using lava lamps to generate cryptographic keys; 5MB of data looked like in...

Who's Hiring?Close is building the sales communication platform of the future and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us accomplish that goal. If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databas...

Who's Hiring?Close is building the sales communication platform of the future and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us accomplish that goal. If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databas...