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🍔🧠 How YouTube Handles 2.5B Users: A System Design Breakdown

🍔🧠 How YouTube Handles 2.5B Users: A System Design Breakdown

PLUS: Chaos Engineering 101 🔥, How to Scale WebSockets ⚡, When to Use Query Builders? 🤔

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 How GitHub Handles 500 Million Code Push/Month

🍔🧠 How GitHub Handles 500 Million Code Push/Month

PLUS: 7 Lessons Building AI Apps 🤖, Double-Keyed Browser Caching ⚡, OpenAI's New Operator Agent 👀

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 GraphQL vs REST Explained In 1 Email

🍔🧠 GraphQL vs REST Explained In 1 Email

PLUS: Uber's Exabyte-Scale Data System 📚, React's New Animations API 🕸️, 15 Tips to Ace System Design 🏆

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 Real-time TB transfers at Pinterest

🍔🧠 Real-time TB transfers at Pinterest

PLUS: How AirTags Work ⚡, DDOS Mitigation 101 📚, Long Polling vs. WebSockets 💬

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 Behind the Scenes: Managing 90M Queries a Month at Canva

🍔🧠 Behind the Scenes: Managing 90M Queries a Month at Canva

PLUS: AI Predictions for 2025, 2024 Databases Summary 📚, Mastering Concurrency in Practice ⚡

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 Booking Just Made Java Sexy Again: 77% Smaller Payloads With 1 Migration

🍔🧠 Booking Just Made Java Sexy Again: 77% Smaller Payloads With 1 Migration

PLUS: System Design Interview Database Tips 📚, Apple vs Ring 👀, SQLite's Speed Boost with Bloom Filters ⚡

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 RIP Microservices; Shopify's 30TB/min Approach

🍔🧠 RIP Microservices; Shopify's 30TB/min Approach

PLUS: Leetcode Simplified 👀, Thread Management 101 📚, Debugging Techniques for Developers ⚡

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 How Airbnb Handles a Million User Events/Second

🍔🧠 How Airbnb Handles a Million User Events/Second

PLUS: Amazon's New AI Lab 🤖, Redis Scaling Lessons 📚, From New Grad to Meta Staff 🦸‍♂️

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 1 Server for 1M Connections: Nginx Architecture

🍔🧠 1 Server for 1M Connections: Nginx Architecture

PLUS: Build a Distributed Log ⚡, Data Fetching Patterns 📚, Developer's Guide to API Gateways 🔍

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 How LinkedIn Scaled to 5 Million Queries Per Second

🍔🧠 How LinkedIn Scaled to 5 Million Queries Per Second

PLUS: Netflix's Self-Healing System 🫢, PostgreSQL Learnings 📚, Essential Trends Beyond LLMs 🚀

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 Bloom Filters Explained in 1 Email

🍔🧠 Bloom Filters Explained in 1 Email

PLUS: Apple's 'LLM Siri' 🫢, Knowledge Management 📚, React Anti-Patterns to Avoid ❌

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 Behind Reddit's 100K Reads/Sec Database Design

🍔🧠 Behind Reddit's 100K Reads/Sec Database Design

PLUS: LinkedIn Architecture 📚, Containerization Explained 💡, 5 Software Trends to Watch 🔍

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac