3 days agoConsistent HashingConsistent Hashing is a distributed hashing scheme to distribute cache keys efficiently and evenly across servers. In this blog, we are going to discuss emergence and concepts of consistent hashing, how are requests re-distributed when server is added/removed, introduction to virtual nodes, and we’ll wrap up the blog with code. …System Design Interview6 min readSystem Design Interview6 min read
May 13, 2022System Design Interview Patterns-IVIncase you haven’t checked out my previous blogs on part I, part II and part III of System Design patterns, i would recommend to check it out here. The blog covers 6, 4, 6 different system design patterns that are frequently used in system design interviews. In the current blog…System Design Interview6 min readSystem Design Interview6 min read
May 6, 2022System Design Interview Patterns-IIIIncase you haven’t checked out my previous blogs on part I and part II of System Design patterns, i would recommend to check it out here. The blog covers 6, 4 different system design patterns that are frequently used in system design interviews. In the current blog, i am covering…System Design Interview8 min readSystem Design Interview8 min read
May 3, 2022System Design Interview Patterns-IIIncase you haven’t checked out System Design Patterns-I , i would recommend you check it out. The blog covers 6 different system design patterns that are frequently used in system design interviews. In the current blog, i am covering 4 more system design patterns that would be handy for any…System Design Interview4 min readSystem Design Interview4 min read
Apr 30, 2022System Design Interview Patterns-ISystem design interview holds a lot of importance in decision making for senior-level software developer positions. In this blog series, i am going to cover most common design patterns that can be applied to all the system design problems. …Computer Science9 min readComputer Science9 min read
Published inInterviewNoodle·Apr 10, 2022System design — CommunicationNow that we got data storage out of the way, let's discuss the next topic which is communication between client and server. It usually involves two components — client and server where the client sends request to the server, while the server responds with the resources. …System Design Interview7 min readSystem Design Interview7 min read
Apr 9, 2022System Design — Application layerApplication layer is the service layer that is responsible for exposing business logic to clients. On the other side, web servers accept and serve static pages (i.e. html, css, images and videos) from a website. Application servers enhance the interactive parts of the website by executing server side logic. …System Design Interview5 min readSystem Design Interview5 min read
Mar 22, 2022Cache Part 2 — Cache update strategySince we can only store a limited amount of data into cache, we need to determine best cache update strategy to make best use of limited memory. We need to update data frequently so that the least recently data exists in the cache. …Computer Science3 min readComputer Science3 min read
Mar 18, 2022Introduction to Cache Part 1Cache is a high speed data storing layer that stores a very small portion of data, to serve future requests faster compared to if data was accessed from primary storage systems. Caches are key-value stores(average complexity O(1)) that can be set up at many levels to increase throughput and reduce…Computer Science6 min readComputer Science6 min read
Mar 14, 2022Wide column store — NoSQL databaseThe fourth category of NoSQL database that we are going to discuss is wide column store What is wide column store and how are values accessed? Wide column store is sparse, distributed, multi-dimensional sorted map. Value in the map is indexed by (row key, column key, timestamp). A good example…Computer Science2 min readComputer Science2 min read
