Why Scaling Servers Doesn't Fix Your Database Bottleneck
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.
Jun 27, 20266 min read33
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What Happens When You Type google.com? (DNS Explained Simply)
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
Jun 25, 20263 min read178
Event-Driven Architecture: A Practical Guide for Beginners
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
Jun 24, 20266 min read94
How Software Systems Evolve: From MVP to Modern Architectures
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
Jun 19, 20266 min read25