What SingleStore asks database and systems engineers
6 min read A round-by-round look at how SingleStore screens engineers, from the unknown-codebase test to the concurrency and query-execution questions. Read article
Interview Prep
System Design
How Kafka partitions and delivery guarantees show up in interviews
7 min read Kafka only orders messages within a partition, and the delivery guarantee you actually get depends on a handful of producer and consumer settings interviewers expect you to name. Read article
System Design
How to talk about CAP and consistency without sounding junior
7 min read What interviewers are really checking when they ask about CAP, PACELC, and consistency models, and the database trade-offs a senior answer names. Read article
System Design
30 System Design Building Blocks You Can Sketch From Memory
7 min read A reference grid of the thirty components that turn up in nearly every system design interview, what each one does, and where it breaks. Read article
System Design
Design a Distributed Key-Value Store
5 min read Design a distributed key-value store like DynamoDB, Cassandra (its KV layer), or Redis Cluster. This is one of the most Read article
