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Some details of the upcoming low level design course at InterviewReady:

It's a design of a turn based game AI engine.

We pick a single

Can a 500-millisecond increase in page load times cost a website 20% of its incoming search traffic?

Yes. The impact of latency on

All of my 30,000 connections got a notification yesterday.
A message for Work Anniversary.

My sympathies are with the dev teams at LinkedIn, who were

Back in 2015, I took part in programming contests.

The competition was not as intense, and the incentives were not so large.

Almost no one

Google AI can solve competitive programming problems.

Here is a rough breakdown of what's happening.

1. According to the whitepaper, AlphaCode 2 requires a lot

This is how I used to solve problems as an engineer.

-- Our AWS costs have gone up. What can we do?

1. Use monitoring

2019: I was in a team of four full-time engineers, working on a seemingly benign problem.

Our ElasticSearch Cluster was responding slowly.

We first tried

Updated list of engineering papers worth reading.

1. Google File System - https://lnkd.in/d2-wnyqZ
2. Map Reduce Big Data Algorithm - https://lnkd.in/dvE8-s8M
3. BigTable NoSQL Document Store - https://lnkd.in/drmvvSAK
4. Colossus

We analyzed over 50 software engineering papers in 2023.

If you want to start, we recommend the following.

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5. Scaling Memcached for Facebook - https://lnkd.in/dDq8Kde7

Great

Git scales to over 500 million repositories and 20 million users.

But how does Git manage its scale?
Let's peek under the hood ⬇

The most defeated engineer I met was a guy who worked on API gateways. He spent two days a week talking to other

This fantastic Data Structures and Algorithms offering from Benyam Ephrem is now available at InterviewReady.

Here are the topics it covers:

1. Time & Space

The most defeated engineer I met was a guy who worked on API gateways. He spent two days a week talking to other

Techstack of our startup, InterviewReady.

It's a small startup with ~4 TB of video consumed by users every month.

We use AWS for most of

Scaling Memcached at Facebook - PDF notes

Original Paper Link: https://lnkd.in/dDq8Kde7

InterviewReady Notes Link: https://lnkd.in/dup_idui

InterviewReady Classes Link: https://lnkd.in/db7CQkFE

Feel free to download and share. These notes

Distributed Authorization is a challenge.
Google has it even harder.

Their authorization system has to deal with the following:

1. Massive Scale - Billions of

Most examples on low-level design are contrived.

S.O.L.I.D principles and design patterns are taught in clean environments with clear goals.

In reality, products evolve. Engineers

This paper is fresh off the press, and it could change the world.

Story:
Since ChatGPT went viral, LLMs have become a big deal.

Google, Meta,

Here is a useless bit of trivia: Leap Seconds.

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Story: The Earth moves around the Sun, and every revolution completes a year.
How many days

Ten awesome system design whitepapers:

1. Amazon Physalia - Millions of tiny databases: https://lnkd.in/dbaUXqcy

2. Improving CDN path latencies at Google: https://lnkd.in/duBucfes

3. SIEVE is Simpler