You know that feeling, right? You’re looking at your Go app’s memory charts, and they’re just… creeping up. Slowly, steadily. Every day, a…

Go 1.27 ships with a new goroutine leak profiler that uses the garbage collector to find goroutines that can never wake up. In this article, we write a leaky program, catch the leak with the new profile, and fix it. - Authored by Cory LaNou

When building a large scale, highly available and distributed system, what
architecture concepts do you need to use, in practice? In this post, I am
summarizing ones I have found essential to learn and apply when building the
payments system that powers Uber.…

Useful resources on distributed system design. Contribute to JohnCrickett/SystemDesign development by creating an account on GitHub.

Just like knowing the basics about how operating system works and/or how memory or CPU work, knowing the basics about database internals will, especially a backend developer, make you a more complete and competent programmer. In the video I'm gonna try to…

Master ClickHouse query optimization through architectural understanding. Learn why ORDER BY design can improve performance 100×, plus proven techniques for trillion-row millisecond queries.

A list of awesome Go tools. Not like awesome-go here only maintains golang awesome tools. - gobuild/awesome-go-tools

Implement transactions using a saga, which is sequence of local transactions

These algorithms aren't magic – but combined they can save over 90% of storage costs and speed up queries. Here’s how 5 common ones work.

Choosing ClickHouse compression algorithms

One photo is a snapshot. A lifetime of photos is an exhibition.

Maybe the same is true of breaking databases? One broken database is a bug. A hundred broken databases…

Kyle Kingsbury, the author of Jepsen, has broken so many databases, he’s turned it…

A framework for distributed systems verification, with fault injection - jepsen-io/jepsen

Chain of thought (CoT) is a prompt engineering technique that enhances the output of large language models (LLMs), particularly for complex tasks involving multistep reasoning.

Learn how to apply the microservices approach to the frontend. A guide to simplifying unwieldy frontends by composing them from small, well-defined units.