The All-in-One Compendium

A place to keep track of all the articles published and to come. Provides an easy way to access all discussed topics. Updated as needed.

Articles with no hyperlink are topics under draft and which will be published in the near future.

System Design

1. SYSTEM DESIGN COMPONENTS

   1. CACHING

      1. Mastering Cache Management: Eviction, Invalidation, and Optimal Data Access Strategies

      2. Least Frequently Used (LFU) Cache - Design and Implementation

2. PATTERNS OF DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTIONS

   1. Understanding the Dual-Write Challenge in Multi-System Environments

3. MICROSERVICES

   1. Refactoring legacy code: The Strangler Fig Migration Pattern

4. REAL WORLD SCALING STORIES

   1. Common Microservice Failures and How DoorDash Mitigates Them

   2. Payments Systems at Scale: Lessons from Uber's Unified Platform

5. UNDER THE HOOD - HOW EXISTING SYSTEMS WORK

   1. From Pixels to Information: A Comprehensive Guide to QR Codes

      1. Coding Theory: Hamming Distance, Code, and Bound

   2. Advanced Data Structures for Discrete Event Simulation

   3. Decentralised Social Media Explained: Inside Bluesky's Federated Architecture

6. OPTIMISATION TECHNIQUES

   1. Optimising Performance: The Cool Magic of Bloom Filters

7. MY LEARNINGS

   1. Building an Audit Logging Solution: Production Scars and Evolutionary Architectures

Engineering Interviews

1. INTERVIEWS’ HOW-TO’S

   1. Cracking the Product Interview for Engineers

   2. Cracking the System Design Interview

   3. Red Flags to Look for in Software Engineering Interviews

2. DATA STRUCTURES & ALGORITHMS

   1. LFU Cache (leetcode 460)

   2. Bloom Filter Data Structure

Golang in Depth

1. MEMORY MANAGEMENT

   1. Breaking Free: Navigating Golang's Memory Management

2. CONCURRENCY

   1. Cracking the Go Concurrency Basics - Part 1

   2. Beyond Goroutines: Exploring Advanced Concurrency Patterns in Go - Part 2

3. GOTCHAS

   1. Unbreaking the Loop: Go 1.22 fixes for loops

Coding Theory

1. Coding Theory: Hamming Distance, Code, and Bound

Career Growth/Leadership

1. BUILDING TEAMS

   1. The Bear: How a show about a restaurant provides the best leadership takeaways

2. MENTORSHIP

   1. Mentorship That Matters: Building Effective Knowledge-Sharing Systems

Book Reviews

1. Book Review: "The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI", by Dr. Fei-Fei Li

AI/ML

1. Crafting Conversations: Techniques and Tips for Effective Prompting

Non-Tech

1. The 'Lazy-to-Crazy' Runner's Guide to Marathon Glory