Inside the Kafka Cluster: Brokers, Replication, and KRaft
Kafka stays available when brokers fail because of how it stores and replicates data. See how partitions are copied across brokers, how lead...
Oct 13, 2026
5 min
Scaling Kafka: A Practical Guide from Thousands to Millions of Messages per Second
Kafka scales well by design, but it rarely scales on its own. This guide walks through the levers that matter most: sizing partitions, tunin...
Oct 13, 2026
6 min
Apache Kafka Explained: The Backbone of Real-Time Data
Kafka turns a tangle of point-to-point integrations into one shared, durable log of events. This first post covers the core ideas, why Kafka...
Oct 11, 2026
5 min
UBDCC Deep-Dive: Building a Trust Layer for Binance Order Books
TL;DR — UBDCC is not "Redis for Binance order books". It is an order book trust layer: every layer of the stack — UBWA, UBLDC, the cluster, ...
Sep 21, 2026
13 min
Consistent Hashing: Why Adding One Server Shouldn't Move Everything
Add one server under naive hash%N and most keys move for no reason. This post builds a real consistent hashing ring, measures how much less ...
Sep 10, 2026
6 min
How Netflix's Architecture Works in 2026: A Developer's Guide
Netflix's architecture has evolved from a monolithic DVD business into a globally distributed platform built around EKS, Envoy, Open Connect...
Aug 30, 2026
11 min
We Added Redis to Make Things Faster. It Made Things Worse.
We added Redis to fix a slow endpoint and watched response times drop. Then came stale data, invalidation problems, traffic spikes, and data...
Jul 30, 2026
7 min
What Actually Happens When Your App Goes Viral?
Most applications do not fail because the code is bad. They fail because success arrives faster than the architecture evolves. A backend tha...
May 19, 2026
8 min