Deep dives into software architecture, systems, and engineering. Build intuition by interacting with the systems from the wire up.
From 10.0.0.0/16 to the edge of the internet. How a request actually travels through a cloud network — and everything around that journey: VPCs, ALBs, SGs, DNS, and endpoints.
From single-leader setups to leaderless systems. Explore the mechanics of replication, consensus algorithms like Raft, and data consistency across distributed nodes.
Unreliable networks, time and ordering, partitioning, distributed transactions, and the CAP theorem. Master the fallacies of distributed computing.
B-Trees vs LSM Trees, Write-Ahead Logs, isolation levels, and the actual mechanics of a transaction. Understand why your queries are slow at the storage engine level.