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What is Service Discovery?

March 11, 2025

Service discovery is a critical component of modern distributed systems that enables services to find and communicate with each other without hard-coding network locations. As applications grow in complexity and scale, particularly in microservices architectures and cloud environments, the need for dynamic service discovery becomes essential.

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A Quick Crash Course on Stateful vs Stateless Architecture

March 7, 2025

Stateful vs. stateless architecture is one of those architectural choices that seems simple on the surface but has important implications for whatever software you’re building.

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What exactly is scalability?

February 18, 2025

Scalability is the ability to handle more load by adding resources. Great engineers not only know what system scalability is, but how to scale a system properly. This article goes over 10 ways to scale a software system.

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How to Choose the Right Database

January 6, 2025

Understand the most common use cases of database choice in system design interviews.