Backend
Five Caching Strategies Every Backend Dev Should Know
A beginner-friendly guide to Cache-Aside, Read-Through, Write-Through, Write-Back, and Write-Around, with when to use each.
·9 min read
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Posts tagged "Backend"
Articles, deep dives, and write-ups related to "Backend".
Computer Science
The Mechanics of Compression: How 100GB Becomes 25GB
A deep dive into the mathematical 'magic' behind data compression, from Huffman Coding to the architectural differences between ZIP and TAR.GZ.
·12 min read
Golang
Optimizing Memory Layout in Go: A Deep Dive into Struct Design
How Go struct field ordering affects memory usage through alignment and padding, with concrete benchmarks showing the difference across millions of allocations and practical tools to detect wasted space.
·4 min read
Software Architecture
Architectural Design for a Ride App such as OLA, UBER, RAPIDO
A microservices architecture breakdown for ride-sharing apps covering service boundaries, communication patterns (REST vs gRPC vs message queues), geo-location tracking, and the trade-offs between monolith-first and microservices approaches.
·5 min read
AWS
Amazon SNS for Cost Reduction and Message Delivery Assurance in Startups
How Amazon SNS helps startups cut messaging costs with pay-per-message pricing, automatic retries, dead letter queues, and multi-region delivery — and when SQS or third-party services might be a better fit.
·5 min read
AWS
S3 Policies Explained: Bucket Policies vs IAM Policies vs ACLs
How S3 access control actually works — the difference between bucket policies, IAM policies, and ACLs, with working JSON examples for common scenarios like public read access, encryption enforcement, and user-scoped permissions.
·5 min read