Event-Driven Fundamentals: Why PulseCart Moved Off Request-Response
Day 1 of Building PulseCart: Event-Driven Architecture on GCP
Jun 20, 20266 min read33
Command Palette
Search for a command to run...
#system-design
Articles tagged with #system-design
Welcome to PulseCart: What This Series Is and Who It's For
Day 0 of Building PulseCart: Event-Driven Architecture on GCP
Jun 18, 20265 min read5
How I'd Design a Chat System Like WhatsApp — WebSockets, Message Delivery, and Scaling to Millions
A practical system design breakdown covering 1-on-1 and group messaging, delivery guarantees, and the architecture decisions that actually matter in production
Apr 17, 202615 min read48
Designing a Rate Limiter From Scratch — Token Bucket vs Sliding Window vs Fixed Window vs Leaky Bucket
A practical system design breakdown covering all 4 algorithms, per-user and per-IP limiting, and how to implement it in a distributed system
Apr 10, 202612 min read45
How I'd Design a URL Shortener on AWS — and What Most Tutorials Get Wrong
The Problem With Most URL Shortener Tutorials Search "URL shortener system design" and you'll find hundreds of articles. Most of them give you the same thing: a single server, a database with a short_
Apr 3, 20268 min read122