Tag: system-design

All the articles with the tag "system-design".

• Kafka: Lessons Only Production Can Teach You

  Published: 24 Jan, 2026 |  at  07:31 AM

  No Kafka tutorial prepares you for the 2 AM wake-up call when consumer lag spirals out of control. Hard-earned lessons about Kafka in production.

• High-Load System Design: Comprehensive Solutions from Front-end to Back-end

  Published: 21 Sep, 2025 |  at  04:32 AM

  A comprehensive guide to high-load system design: from frontend optimization, caching, query optimization, backend patterns, request management, to monitoring and autoscaling.

• Why Twilio Segment Said Goodbye to Microservices and Returned to Monolith

  Published: 20 Sep, 2025 |  at  04:31 AM

  Analyzing the Twilio Segment case study: from a microservices architecture with hundreds of services to the decision to return to a modular monolith.

• Understanding Zero Trust in 5 Minutes

  Published: 3 Sep, 2025 |  at  10:12 AM

  Explaining the Zero Trust security model: core principles, comparison with traditional security, and practical examples.