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A crash course on building a distributed message broker like Kafka from scratch - Part 1
Code a distributed message broker from the bare bones
 • Shivang Sarawagi
How Unikraft Cloud reduces serverless cold starts to milliseconds with unikernels and microVMs
In my former post, 'Why Cloudflare does not use containers in their Workers platform,' I discussed the V8 isolate architecture that enables them to…
 • Shivang Sarawagi
Why doesn't Cloudflare use containers in their Workers platform infrastructure?
Cloudflare enables its customers to run serverless code at the edge globally at blazing speeds with almost zero cold startup time.
 • Shivang Sarawagi
How Monzo and DoorDash integrate external libraries with their code and how do web-scale companies manage a large number of microservices
Monzo, a UK-based online bank, recently shared insights into how they run migrations across 2800 microservices.
 • Shivang Sarawagi
Kafka tiered-storage at Uber and using it as a system of record
Kafka is heavily used in Uber's tech stack, serving several critical use cases, including batch and real-time systems.
 • Shivang Sarawagi
How Zerodha scaled from zero to 11 million users: Key takeaways
Zerodha (India's largest stockbroker) recently gave a talk on YouTube on how they scaled from zero to 11M users.
 • Shivang Sarawagi
The thought process behind picking the right database for our service with a reference checklist
Picture the below data persistence requirements: The DB should be able to handle a minimum of 1.5 million RPS (Request Per Second) with 1 million writes…
 • Shivang Sarawagi
Coding projects for software developers - Part 2 - Build components and plumb them together
This is part two of my coding projects for developers post series. Do check out part one, which is the introductory part containing eight…
 • Shivang Sarawagi
How to wrap our heads around large codebases and open-source GitHub repositories
When we face an unfamiliar large codebase either at our workplace or an open-source GitHub repository, our first thought is, 'How do I understand the…
 • Shivang Sarawagi
Coding projects for software developers: Let’s get some hands-on practice – Part 1
Hello! Below is an aggregated list of software projects I am putting together that we can code over the weekend or over a span of a few days on the…
 • Shivang Sarawagi
Enabling Our Server to Handle Concurrent Requests By Implementing a Multithreaded TCP/IP Server
In my previous post, I implemented a bare-bones single-threaded TCP/IP server, helping us understand the intricacies of client-server communication over…
 • Shivang Sarawagi
Implementing a Single-threaded Blocking Bare Bones TCP/IP Server
This newsletter post is a continuation of my previous introductory post on coding distributed systems from the bare bones. If you haven't read it yet, I…
 • Shivang Sarawagi
Kickstart your distributed systems programming and architecture learning with this post
Distributed systems is a term that is used across layers in the compute stack.
 • Shivang Sarawagi
System Design Case Study #5: Serverless Compute & Storage At the Edge With Stateless & Stateful Functions
Picture a scenario where we need to set up the inventory management infrastructure globally across different cloud regions for a massive sports apparel…
 • Shivang Sarawagi
Web Scale (Systems Architecture & Systems Programming)
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