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How databases store, scale, and stay consistent
5 posts
Learn how MongoDB works from first principles. Interactive simulators for document storage, BSON structure, indexing, and the aggregation pipeline.
See PostgreSQL internals: 8KB pages, B-tree indexes, MVCC concurrency, and WAL durability. Interactive visual guide.
See why single databases fail at scale. Interactive guide to sharding strategies with Python implementation.
See why single databases fail. Interactive guide to primary-replica replication with Python implementation.
Interactive SimCity-style simulator where you build and break infrastructure. Add shards, replicas, and watch cascade failures teach you system design.