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Cover image for System Design 0-to-1: How WhatsApp Scales to 2 Billion Users (Ep. 1)

Hrishikesh Dalal

Dec 27 '25

System Design 0-to-1: How WhatsApp Scales to 2 Billion Users (Ep. 1)

#architecture #beginners #systemdesign

2 min read

Hrishikesh Dalal

Dec 27 '25

System Design 0-to-1: Why the World's Biggest Apps Scale Horizontally

#distributedsystems #webdev #kubernetes

2 min read

Hrishikesh Dalal

Dec 27 '25

EP 2: Vertical Scaling: Is Bigger Always Better?

#systemdesign #architecture #beginners #performance

2 min read

Cover image for EP 3.1 - Latency

Hrishikesh Dalal

Dec 28 '25

EP 3.1 - Latency

1 min read

Hrishikesh Dalal

Dec 28 '25

EP 3.2 : Throughput

#webdev #programming #design

1 min read

Hrishikesh Dalal

Dec 28 '25

EP 4.1 - The CAP Theorem - You Can't Have It All

#webdev

1 min read

Hrishikesh Dalal

Dec 28 '25

EP 4.2 - CA vs. AP vs. CP - What to Choose and When

#architecture #database #systemdesign

1 min read

Hrishikesh Dalal

Dec 29 '25

EP 5: Autoscaling - Building Systems that Breathe

#webdev #kubernetes #aws

3 min read

Hrishikesh Dalal

Dec 29 '25

EP 6.1: How to Search 1 Billion Rows in Milliseconds

#database #indexing

3 min read

Hrishikesh Dalal

Dec 31 '25

EP 6.2: A Simple Guide to Database Partitioning

#system #design

3 min read

Hrishikesh Dalal

Jan 1

EP 6.3: Master-Slave Architecture

#architecture #database #systemdesign

3 min read

Hrishikesh Dalal

Jan 1

EP 6.4: What is SHARDING?

#database #resources

3 min read

Hrishikesh Dalal

Jan 2

EP 7: The "Join" Tax vs. The "Storage" Tax

#systemdesign #architecture #database #performance

4 min read

Hrishikesh Dalal

Jan 10

EP 8: The Legend of "ShopStream": A Tale of Two Architectures

#systemdesign #webdev #architecture #microservices

4 min read

Hrishikesh Dalal

Jan 11

EP 9: The Legend of ShopStream: The Gatekeeper Chronicles

#webdev #programming #loadbalancer

3 min read

Hrishikesh Dalal

Jan 12

EP 10: The Legend of ShopStream: The NFS (Caching)

#webdev #redis #database

3 min read

Hrishikesh Dalal

Jan 13

EP 11: The Legend of ShopStream: The In-Memory Revolution

#architecture #database #performance

4 min read

Cover image for System Design EP: 12 - Why Your Database Hates Your Images: A Guide to BLOBs

Hrishikesh Dalal

Jan 14

System Design EP: 12 - Why Your Database Hates Your Images: A Guide to BLOBs

#systemdesign #blobs #aws

2 min read

Cover image for System Design - EP 13: Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)

Hrishikesh Dalal

Jan 16

System Design - EP 13: Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)

#webdev #beginners #programming

4 min read

Cover image for System Design: EP 14 - The Coffee Shop Guide to Understanding Message Brokers

Hrishikesh Dalal

Jan 21

System Design: EP 14 - The Coffee Shop Guide to Understanding Message Brokers

#systemdesign #webdev #programming

3 min read