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Most system design discussions jump straight into complex architecture patterns—monoliths, microservices, event-driven systems, and distributed databases. But in real engineering, systems don’t begin
Most engineers discover Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) through tools first. They hear about Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS, or Google Cloud Pub/Sub, and immediately want to implement them. But when designi
Most engineers use the internet every day without thinking about what actually happens before a page loads. Understanding that process is one of the first building blocks of system design. Let's start
When you launch a new application, a single-server architecture is usually more than enough. Your users send requests, the server processes the backend logic, talks to the database, and returns a resp
Your application is running on multiple servers. Traffic is growing. Everything looks good — until one day, your database becomes the slowest part of the system.
