106 discussions in the community
hey all, im working on a system that needs to push real-time updates to a large number of users at the same time, kinda like a live feed or alerts. im...
Hey everyone, I'm getting back into system design and wanted to ask for your thoughts on distributed tracing. When you have a bunch of microservices, ...
schema evolution can be a real pain point as microservices grow. I'm curious about what strategies people are using to manage changes to data schemas ...
hey folks, i’ve been thinking a lot about how microservices should talk to each other. we often use synchronous REST calls for simple request/response...
hey everyone, ive been thinking a lot about eventual consistency lately, espescially in distributed systems where strict ACID isnt always feasible or ...
Our system is growing like crazy, and our single database is starting to creak. Reads are sluggish, and writes are a real bottleneck. We've tweaked in...
hey everyone, i've been thinking about when its actually beneficial to introduce a message queue like Kafka or RabbitMQ into a system. weve used them ...
hey everyone, ive been thinking a lot about rate limiting lately. we need to protect our apis from abuse and ensure fair usage. my main question is ab...
hey folks, im digging into microservice architectures lately and the debugging aspect is really making me think. when things get complex across many s...
hey everyone, i've been thinking a lot about message queues lately, espcially in systems where throughput is absolutely critical. weve looked at kafka...
we're running into some super specific performance problems with our current relational database, you know, for this one thing we do that needs to be ...
Hey everyone, I've been chewing on transactional guarantees in system design lately. We usually aim for ACID properties, right, especially for importa...
hey folks, im trying to nail down the best ways to keep data in sync across multiple clients in real-time. we're building a collaborative editing tool...
hey everyone, i've been thinking a lot about api design lately, specifically around when we might be over-engineering things by strictly adhering to r...
ive been working with a growing application that's starting to feel the pains of a monolith. Development cycles are slowing down, deployments are beco...
Hey everyone, I've been thinking a lot about how we serve static assets and external APIs efficiently, especially as traffic grows. We're currently se...
hey everyone, ive been thinking a lot about async processing lately. weve got a few services that could def benefit from decoupling, like order proces...
Hey everyone, I've been thinking about feature flags a lot lately. We've used them for rollouts and quick turn-offs, but I'm curious about other situa...
im workin on some internal microservices and weve been usin rest w json pretty much everywhere. its familiar and works fine for most stuff. but ive se...
hey folks, been thinking about distributed systems lately. we often talk about databases, caches, and message queues, but what about distributed locks...
