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Building an Audit Logging Solution: Production Scars and Evolutionary Architectures
On lessons learnt when mvps and balancing trade offs aren't enough
 • Diana Darie
Decentralised Social Media Explained: Inside Bluesky's Federated Architecture
On what makes a system decentralised and federated, Bluesky's current architecture and AT Protocol
 • Diana Darie
How to Cron: Advanced Data Structures for Discrete Event Simulation
On algorithmic improvements in the event set management, from O(√n) to O(1).
 • Diana Darie
Payments Systems at Scale: Lessons from Uber's Unified Platform
On the story of how Uber's engineering team transformed a maze of payment systems into a unified platform that powers millions of transactions daily
 • Diana Darie
Understanding the Dual-Write Challenge in Multi-System Environments
On the risks of data consistency, the causes behind synchronisation issues, and strategies to mitigate these problems.
 • Diana Darie
Common microservice failures and how DoorDash mitigates them
On the different pitfalls that arise in distributed systems, what are some of the localised solutions, what can be done at a more global level and how…
 • Diana Darie
Coding Theory: Hamming Distance, Code, and Bound
Attempting to dive into the basics of coding theory
 • Diana Darie
From Pixels to Information: A Comprehensive Guide on QR Codes
On what QR codes are, why do we use them, and how do we encode/decode information through them
 • Diana Darie
Least Frequently Used (LFU) Cache - Design and Implementation
On how LFU works and how to implement an optimal solution.
 • Diana Darie
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