Advanced Systems Path
Explore distributed systems design, consensus algorithms, and modern architecture patterns.
Learning Posts
- How DEX Aggregators Route Trades Across Multiple Exchanges
- Cryptocurrency Fundamentals: A Technical Overview
- Blockchain Forks and Chain Reorganizations Explained
- Private Key Sharding: A Technical Guide
- Bitcoin SegWit: How It Reduces Transaction Fees
- Bitcoin Transaction Formats: Legacy vs. SegWit Explained
- Proving Ownership of Bitcoin Multisig Addresses
- Proving Bitcoin Address Ownership: A Technical Guide
- Understanding PGP: A Technical Reference Guide
- Consistency Models in Distributed Systems
- Cloud Storage Consistency Models Explained
- Paxos vs. Raft: Consensus Algorithms Compared
- Understanding Paxos: Distributed Consensus Made Clear
- Understanding the Raft Consensus Protocol
- Installing Zlib on Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04 LTS
- DEX vs. CEX: Technical Trade-offs Explained
- Email Authentication Fundamentals: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC Explained
- Query Transaction Details by ID in Hyperledger Fabric
- Installing Hyperledger Fabric 2.5 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- Choosing Stream Processing Tools Based on Latency Needs
- How to Deactivate LVM Logical Volumes on Linux
- Diagnosing and Repairing Corrupt HDFS Blocks
- x86-64 Instruction Encoding: From Assembly to Machine Code
- HDFS NameNode Metadata Checkpointing: Resolving Sync Issues
- Debugging Kernel Modules with Runtime Parameters
- QEMU/KVM Networking: TAP, virtio, and vhost Explained
- Measuring Task I/O with eBPF: Microsecond Precision
- Linux Kernel’s taskstats: Per-Task Performance Metrics
- Setting Up a Hadoop 2.x Cluster for Development and Legacy Systems
- AMPLab Big Data Benchmark: Key Metrics and Lasting Impact
- Cloud Storage Consistency Models: S3, GCS, and Azure Storage
- Latency Numbers Every Systems Engineer Should Know
- Storage Architecture: Lessons from Google’s Infrastructure
- Lessons from Building Large-Scale Distributed Systems
- Colossus: Google’s Next-Generation Distributed File System
- Installing Hadoop 1.x: A Complete Guide
Topics Covered
- Distributed Systems
- Consensus Algorithms
- System Design & Architecture
- Scalability & Fault Tolerance
- Consistency Models
- Replication Strategies
- Network Partitions
- Distributed Transactions