Designing a Scalable Distributed Notification System
March 15, 20242 min read
distributed-systems
backend
architecture
Loading...
Related Posts
From CRUD to Distributed Systems: Why I'm Building a Twitter Timeline Service (and Documenting Every Phase)
A breakdown of Twitter's fan-out architecture - and why optimizing for reads over writes was one of the most elegant tradeoffs in social media engineering.
Building a Real-Time Analytics System with Apache Kafka: Lessons from My Mini Uber Project
I wanted to understand how companies like Uber process millions of location updates every day. Instead of watching more tutorials, I decided to build a small event-driven backend from scratch using Apache Kafka, Socket.IO, and TypeScript.
How Netflix Stopped One Slow Microservice From Taking Down the Whole Company
The real story behind Hystrix, Netflix's circuit breaker library - why cascading failures kept taking down their platform, and the pattern they built to stop it.