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May 21, 2024 • Mahdi Yusuf

The Cost of AI in Code: Goodbye, Fingerspitzengefühl?

As we offload more to AI, we risk losing the subtle instincts that make great developers great.

Jun 3 • Mahdi Yusuf

How does technical debt accrue? Most people would say bad engineering. What is bad engineering? Inflexibility? Is one system engineered correctly to do…

Jan 26, 2023 • Mahdi Yusuf

Locking and Contention

The lock mechanism is an integral part of any modern system. In software applications, locks are used to ensure that multiple users do not…

Jan 10, 2023 • Mahdi Yusuf

Capture the Flag

Join the Architecture Notes CTF and test your system design skills against participants from around the world. Solve challenges in distributed systems…

Dec 30, 2022 • Mahdi Yusuf

Recent posts

Circuit Breakers

Circuit breakers are a vital component of any distributed system, helping to improve reliability and resilience by preventing failures from cascading…

Dec 20, 2022 • Mahdi Yusuf

Database Sharding Explained

More features, active users, and data are collected daily. Your database is slowing your application. Many people don't understand database sharding…

Dec 12, 2022 • Mahdi Yusuf

Virtualization Explained

The development of cloud-native applications has become significantly influenced by container technology. Building secure and reliable systems requires…

Nov 13, 2022 • Mahdi Yusuf

As we scale systems, it's essential to realize the impact of all the components in our systems and how they interact. For example, load balancers…

Nov 2, 2022 • Mahdi Yusuf

12 Factor App Revisited

The Twelve-Factor App methodology is a methodology for building software-as-a-service applications by Adam Wiggins. We cover how they have since…

Oct 6, 2022 • Mahdi Yusuf

As you venture into more complicated architecture setups, there are a few things engineers sometimes don't understand when setting up consensus-based…

Oct 1, 2022 • Mahdi Yusuf