System Design Project

All about building robust, functional, and scalable systems. — Hola, In the previous writeup, we have learned about latency and throughput, in this writeup, we will be learning about system availability. For an instance, you could interpret availability in a couple of ways, one of the ways is how resistant your system is to failures. …

In my previous blog post Chopping the monolith, I explained my stance on microservices and why it shouldn’t be your golden standard. However, I admitted that some parts of the codebase were less stable than others and had to change more frequently. I proposed “chopping” these few parts to cope…

Designing a scalable system is a never-ending, challenging procedure and required continuous improvement. In this series of articles, we are going to build a system that supports a single user and gradually scale it up to serve millions of users. Setting up a server to serve a single user: The…

Pendahuluan Kita perlu untuk memastikan aplikasi sudah menyelesaikan setiap request sebelum aplikasi tersebut restart, scale down, atau mati agar user experience tetap terjaga. Pada post kali ini saya ingin menjelaskan bagaimana cara menjalaknan proses tersebut dengan graceful shutdown yang terintegrasi dengan signal shutdown process. …

This is the second post in the terraform series and I am even more in love with this tech. The emphasis of this post will be on learning how to terraform?. We will also conclude how easy and fast terraform is while also being so transparent and manageable as proof…

株式会社MICINのプラットフォームチームでアプリケーションエンジニアをしている北村 光毅です。プラットフォームチームは2021年末に立ち上がり、2022年から本格稼働した新しいチームです。認証・決済・ビデオ通話など、MICIN内のプロダクトで共通して利用する機能をサービスとして切り出し、継続的な開発・改善を行っています。 今年1月にプラットフォーム …

Why should I learn system design? Over the last two decades, there have been a lot of advancements in large-scale web applications. These advancements have redefined the way we think about software development. All of the apps and services that we use daily, like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, are scalable systems. Billions of people worldwide access…

If you attend conferences or read technical articles, you could think that microservices are the correct and only way to build a system at the moment. Despite some pushback from cooler heads, the default architecture is microservices. In this post, I’d like to argue why it’s wrong. I’ll first get…