Note: I have read this great book System Design Interview — An insider’s guide by Alex Xu in depth. So most of my definitions and images will be referred from this book itself as they are highly interactive and give us a clear picture of what is happening. A Rate…

NSQ is an open-source real-time distributed message queue with no single point of failure. It is a reliable message delivery service with high availability. NSQ is easy to implement with go/golang and python using the package go-nsq. It handles a massive number of messages every day, providing fault tolerance and…

Note: I have read this great book System Design Interview — An insider’s guide by Alex Xu in depth. So most of my definitions and images will be referred from this book itself as they are highly interactive and give us a clear picture of what is happening. We will…

Google Engineers and some of the great minds in the field of computer science — Rob Pike, Robert Griesemer and Ken Thompson developed Go while waiting for other programs to compile. Check these people out and it will help you out in understanding why Go is not just another language…

Short Polling We have to send multiple connections from the client to the server to check if the server has successfully processed our request. A lot of connections made will be made and responded with Nothing to respond, so this doesn't seem to be highly scalable with large number of daily active…

When working on projects that require handling multiple operations simultaneously, developers often encounter the choice between synchronous and asynchronous approaches. Sync processing In the synchronous approach, tasks are executed one after another in a sequential manner. Each task must be completed before the next one begins. This means that if a particular…

Introduction to Redis (all the jibber-jabber) => https://medium.com/swlh/the-amazing-redis-620a621f3b2 Moving to the interesting part now… Will be covering redis setup, strings and lists in this article. Setting up Redis Installing Redis on Mac via terminal brew install redis To run the redis server on your local 127.0.0.1 with a default port of 6379 redis-server …

A bidirectional, low latency and event-based communication between client and server — Socket.IO is built on top of the WebSocket protocol and provides additional guarantees like a fallback to HTTP long-polling.

I was learning docker where the course teacher was building, running and pushing python/java/nodejs docker images. My tech stack includes Golang rather than these other languages. So I tried to build my Golang image. And you can too! We will be writing a basic Go (also called Golang) program which…