Archive - System Design Newsletter

How Meta Achieves 99.99999999% Cache Consistency 🎯

#52: Break Into Meta Engineering (4 minutes)

Jul 18 •

How Halo Scaled to 11.6 Million Users Using the Saga Design Pattern 🎮

#51: Break Into Saga Design Pattern (4 Minutes)

Jul 4 •

June 2024

Why Is Redis a Distributed Swiss Army Knife 💭

#50: Break Into Redis Use Cases (5 Minutes)

Jun 20 •

How Instagram Scaled to 2.5 Billion Users

#49: Break Into Instagram Scalability Techniques (7 minutes)

Jun 11 •

May 2024

How YouTube Was Able to Support 2.49 Billion Users With MySQL

#48: Break Into Vitess Architecture (4 minutes)

May 31 •

How Facebook Scaled Live Video to a Billion Users

#47: Break Into Live Streaming Architecture (6 minutes)

May 24 •

How Razorpay Scaled to Handle Flash Sales at 1500 Requests per Second

#46: A Case Study on Payment Gateway Scalability (5 minutes)

May 17 •

How Stripe Prevents Double Payment Using Idempotent API

#45: A Simple Introduction to Idempotent API (4 minutes)

May 9 •

How McDonald’s Food Delivery Platform Handles 20,000 Orders per Second

#44: Break Into McDonald’s Architecture (7 minutes)

May 3 •

April 2024

How Dropbox Scaled to 100 Thousand Users in a Year After Launch

#43: Break Into Early Architecture of Dropbox (6 minutes)

Apr 23 •

How Lyft Support Rides to 21 Million Users

#43: Break Into Lyft Architecture (11 minutes)

Apr 12 •

How Disney+ Scaled to 11 Million Users on Launch Day

#42: A Simple Introduction to Disney+ Architecture (5 minutes)

Apr 2 •

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