Netflix Tech Stack
Netflix's tech stack through clients, backend services, data systems, and observability.
Real-World Case Studies
Architecture case studies that trace how real companies changed systems under growth, incidents, cost pressure, and shifting product demands.
Evolution of Uber's API Layer
Uber’s API layer shifted from one gateway to layered domain-specific gateways.
How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
Discord scaled message storage by moving from MongoDB to Cassandra to ScyllaDB.
Evolution of the Netflix API Architecture
Netflix API evolution from monolith to aggregation gateway and federated graph.
Uber Tech Stack
Uber's stack for real-time dispatch, platform services, data, and operations.
Slack Message Delivery
Slack messages flow through durable writes, fan-out, and live client sync.
10 Principles for Resilient Payment Systems
Shopify payment system principles for retries, isolation, idempotency, and flow control.
Reddit Core Architecture
Reddit architecture for high-read traffic, community workloads, and gradual scaling.
Evolution of Airbnb’s Microservice Architecture
Airbnb’s move from a Rails monolith to service boundaries shaped by team ownership.
Java at Netflix
Netflix Java usage across microservices, tooling, and JVM operations.
TikTok's 200K-File Frontend Monorepo
Large frontend monorepos through dependency graphs, selective builds, and tooling.
Netflix Tech Stack: CI/CD Pipeline
Netflix's CI/CD pipeline through planning, immutable artefacts, rollout control, and telemetry.
Netflix Architecture Overview
Netflix's architecture through clients, edge services, data platforms, and content delivery.
Netflix Push Messaging at Scale
Large scale push messaging with filtering, scheduling, and provider fan-out.
Airbnb Architectural Evolution
Airbnb architecture from monolith growth to service boundaries and platform scaling.
Netflix Tech Stack: Databases
Netflix's database stack through workload-specific storage, caching, and analytics systems.
4 Netflix Caching Strategies
Four Netflix caching patterns for latency reduction, scale, and stream delivery.
Push Notification System Architecture
Push notification architecture for routing, preferences, delivery, and retries.
YouTube Video Upload Pipeline
Large video uploads through chunked ingest, transcoding pipelines, and global storage.
Twitter For You Timeline Recommendation Pipeline
Tweet recommendation through candidate retrieval, ranking, filtering, and mixing.
Stack Overflow System Design
Stack Overflow architecture through a read-heavy monolith, SQL, and caching.
Uber Tech Stack: CI/CD
Uber's CI/CD stack for builds, testing, deployment, and release control.
McDonald’s Event-Driven Architecture
Event-driven architecture through schemas, SDKs, gateways, and platform governance.
Levels.fyi Scaling with Google Sheets
Levelsfyi scaling with Google Sheets, manual workflows, and gradual backend evolution.
Automated Bug Fixing at Meta Scale
Meta’s SapFix pipeline finds reproducible crashes and proposes constrained repairs.
Telegram Security Model
Telegram security through cloud chat encryption and optional secret chats.
Reducing Git Clone Time at Pinterest
Pinterest clone-time reduction through shallower Git fetches in build pipelines.
How Figma Scaled Postgres 100x
How Figma scaled Postgres with replication, partitioning, and workload isolation.