Articles by tag: distributed-systems

How Does Netflix Stream Video at Massive Scale? Architecture Explained

Discover how does Netflix stream video at massive scale using Open Connect CDN, Adaptive Bitrate Streaming, and Chaos Engineering. Learn the tech behind seamless global streaming.

Kafka in Node.js: reliable consumers and scaling

How to properly configure Kafka consumers in Node.js: partitions, offsets, rebalancing, and parallel processing. Practical recommendations for developers.

MySQL solutions in PostgreSQL: Polar architecture for high performance

How Tantor Polar integrates MySQL technologies into PostgreSQL. Compute/storage separation architecture, RDMA and NVMe-oF. Technical details for developers.

Multi-Agentness as FLP: limits of AI coordination

Breakdown of why multi-agent development is distributed consensus with FLP theorem and Lamport. Practical rules for pipelines: failure detectors, validators. For senior developers.

Kafka Idempotency: Delivery Guarantees in Practice

Configuring producer and consumer idempotency in Kafka. ProducerId, Epoch, sequence number, protection against duplicates. Migration to PostgreSQL for Outbox Pattern. For middle/senior developers.

AWS S3: 1 PB/s on slow HDDs

Let's break down how S3 achieves petabyte speeds on HDD with EC 5/9, parallelism and LSM. Technical details for developers: latencies, IOPS, sharding. Study the architecture.

Structured JSON Logs: A Guide for Developers

Practical guide to implementing effective logging in distributed systems. Learn about MDC, entrypoints and error/warning separation.