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Interview Prep
Learn Interview Prep as a connected topic across chapters, concepts, simulations, and interview reasoning.
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Learn Interview Prep as a connected topic across chapters, concepts, simulations, and interview reasoning.
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System Design
Distributed Systems
Architecture
Databases
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Article 1Key Terms in Distributed Systems: The Definitive GlossaryTLDR: Distributed systems vocabulary is precise for a reason. Mixing up read skew and write skew costs you an interview. Confusing Snapshot Isolation with Serializable costs you a production outage. T51 min
Article 2Real-Time Communication: WebSockets, SSE, and Long Polling ExplainedTLDR: 🔌 WebSockets = bidirectional persistent channel — use for chat, gaming, collaborative editing. SSE = one-way server push over HTTP with built-in reconnect — use for AI streaming, live logs, not23 minArticle 3Microservices Architecture: Decomposition, Communication, and Trade-offsTLDR: Microservices let teams deploy and scale services independently — but every service boundary you draw costs you a network hop, a consistency challenge, and an operational burden. The architectur22 minArticle 4Distributed Transactions: 2PC, Saga, and XA ExplainedTLDR: Distributed transactions require you to choose a consistency model before choosing a protocol. 2PC and XA give atomic all-or-nothing commits but block all participants on coordinator failure. Sa26 minArticle 5System Design HLD Example: Payment Processing PlatformTLDR: Payment systems optimize for correctness first, then throughput. This guide covers idempotency, double-entry ledgers, and reconciliation.
Stripe processes over 250 million API requests per day,18 minArticle 6System Design HLD Example: Notification Service (Email, SMS, Push)TLDR: A notification platform routes events to per-channel Kafka queues, deduplicates with Redis, and tracks delivery via webhooks — ensuring that critical alerts like password resets never get blocke19 minPage 1 of 13