System DesignDatabases
Strong vs Eventual Consistency: Pick Your Trade-off
See the real difference between strong and eventual consistency. Interactive simulator shows how banks and social media make different choices.
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How databases store, scale, and stay consistent
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System DesignDatabases
Replication Topologies: Single-Leader, Multi-Leader, Leaderless
Master database replication patterns. Compare single-leader, multi-leader, and leaderless topologies with interactive visualizations and real-world examples.
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Cascade Failures: How One Service Takes Down Your Entire System
See how one failing microservice crashes your entire distributed system. Learn the mechanics behind real-world AWS and Facebook cascade outages.
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How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
Learn how Discord stores trillions of messages and why they migrated from MongoDB to Cassandra to ScyllaDB. A deep-dive into their database evolution.
10 min read
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How MongoDB Works: A Visual Guide to Document Databases
Learn how MongoDB works from first principles. Interactive simulators for document storage, BSON structure, indexing, and the aggregation pipeline.
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How PostgreSQL Works: Pages, Indexes, MVCC & WAL Explained
See how PostgreSQL works under the hood: 8KB pages, B-tree indexes, MVCC concurrency, and WAL durability explained with interactive diagrams.
10 min read
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Database Sharding: Why Single Databases Fail at Scale
See why single databases fail at scale. Interactive visual guide to hash, range, and directory-based sharding strategies with Python examples.
10 min read
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Database Replication: How Primary-Replica Keeps Data Safe
See why single databases fail. Interactive guide to primary-replica replication with Python implementation.
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System Design Simulator: Build, Break, and Fix Databases
Interactive SimCity-style simulator where you build and break infrastructure. Add shards, replicas, and watch cascade failures teach you system design.
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