Archive - System Design Newsletter

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 •

March 2024

How Amazon Scaled E-commerce Shopping Cart Data Infrastructure

#41: Break Into Amazon Dynamo White Paper (8 minutes)

Mar 26 •

How Tinder Scaled to 1.6 Billion Swipes per Day

#40: Break Into Tinder Architecture (7 minutes)

Mar 19 •

How Khan Academy Scaled to 30 Million Users

#39: Break Into Khan Academy Architecture (5 minutes)

Mar 12 •

How Amazon S3 Achieves 99.999999999% Durability

#38: Break Into Incredible Amazon Engineering (7 minutes)

Mar 5 •

February 2024

How Zapier Automates Billions of Tasks

#37: Learn More - Zapier Architecture Overview (5 minutes)

Feb 25 •

How Canva Supports Real-Time Collaboration for 135 Million Monthly Users

#36: Learn More - Awesome RSocket (5 minutes)

Feb 18 •

How Disney+ Hotstar Delivered 5 Billion Emojis in Real Time

#35: Learn More - Hotstar Architecture for Emojis (5 Minutes)

Feb 10 •

January 2024

How 0.1% Companies Do Hyperscaling

#34: And Cell Based Architecture Explained Like You’re Twenty (7 minutes)

Jan 28 •

How Hashnode Generates Feed at Scale

#33: Learn More - Awesome Personalized Feed Architecture (5 minutes)

Jan 21 •

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