Table of Contents Introduction: Why Elasticsearch Dominates Modern Search Architecture Imagine you're building the next Netflix, and your users need to search through millions of movies and TV shows. They…
Introduction: Why Database Interviews Are Different Database interviews are unlike standard coding interviews. While you can prepare for algorithms with LeetCode or coding practice, database interview questions go deeper. They…
Introduction Picture this: You're sitting in a tech interview room, and the interviewer asks, "How would you design Instagram?" Your palms might get sweaty because this isn't just about coding—it's…
Introduction Picture this: You're sitting in a tech interview, and the interviewer leans forward with that familiar glint in their eye. "Let's design an online education platform," they say. "Something…
You're building a food delivery app like DoorDash. A customer places an order, which triggers a cascade of events: charge their card, notify the restaurant, assign a driver, send push…
Picture this: You're running a successful e-commerce platform. What started as a few hundred orders per day has exploded to millions. Your single database server, once handling queries with ease,…
Picture this: You're in a system design interview, and the interviewer asks, "How would you design an authorization system for a platform like Discord that needs to check if millions…
It's 2 AM, and I'm debugging what should have been a simple feature. My coffee has gone cold, my eyes are burning, and I'm staring at a network tab that…
If you've ever found yourself staring at a massive switch statement or a series of if-else chains that seems to grow longer every time a new requirement comes in, you're…
Introduction In distributed systems, particularly in database design and data storage systems, engineers often face challenging trade-offs. The RUM Conjecture, introduced by Athanassoulis et al. in 2016, provides a framework…