8 min read A bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure that answers membership queries with certainty about absence and high confidence […] Read article
7 min read Counting the number of distinct elements in a large stream — cardinality estimation — seems to require storing every unique Read article
9 min read The gossip protocol is the distributed systems equivalent of rumor spreading: each node periodically shares information with a small random Read article
7 min read A service registry is the backbone of dynamic service discovery in microservice architectures. Rather than hardcoding service endpoints, every instance Read article
8 min read A TLS certificate manager automates the full lifecycle of digital certificates: issuance via ACME protocol, storage with encrypted private keys, Read article
9 min read LSM-tree (Log-Structured Merge-tree) is the storage engine architecture behind RocksDB, LevelDB, Cassandra, and HBase. It trades read amplification for dramatically Read article
9 min read A distributed file system (DFS) provides a POSIX-like file interface over a cluster of machines, storing file data reliably across Read article
8 min read A message broker decouples producers from consumers by providing a durable, ordered, partitioned log. Producers append messages to topics; consumers Read article
10 min read An event bus is a pub/sub messaging system designed for event-driven architectures: services publish domain events, and multiple subscribers react Read article
9 min read An object storage system provides a flat, scalable store for arbitrary binary data (objects) addressed by a bucket name and Read article
9 min read A block storage system exposes raw storage as fixed-size blocks (typically 4 KB or 512 bytes) arranged into logical volumes. Read article
9 min read A vector database stores high-dimensional embedding vectors and enables fast approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search — finding the top-K vectors Read article
8 min read A column-family store organises data in a hierarchy: keyspace → table → partition → rows. The partition key determines which Read article
8 min read A graph database stores entities as nodes and relationships as edges, with properties on both. Unlike relational databases that simulate Read article
9 min read A time-series database (TSDB) is purpose-built for append-heavy, time-ordered metric data. Its key design decisions — chunk storage, timestamp and Read article
