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How to Design a System for 1 Million Requests per Second

A step-by-step system design for 1M requests/sec — capacity math with Little's Law, edge caching, load balancing, multi-level caching, consistent-hash sharding, async queues, rate limiting, circuit breakers and autoscaling, with Java examples and the mistakes most designs make.

Chaturmind TeamSep 29, 2026

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How to Design a System for 1 Million Requests per Second

A step-by-step system design for 1M requests/sec — capacity math with Little's Law, edge caching, load balancing, multi-level caching, consistent-hash sharding, async queues, rate limiting, circuit breakers and autoscaling, with Java examples and the mistakes most designs make.

Chaturmind TeamSep 29, 2026

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Kafka for Backend Engineers: Partitions, Ordering and Delivery Guarantees

How Kafka topics, partitions and consumer groups actually work, why ordering is only per partition, and what at-least-once and exactly-once really mean for your Spring Boot services.

Chaturmind TeamSep 26, 2026

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Designing a Rate Limiter: Token Bucket, Sliding Window and Redis

The algorithms behind API rate limiting, their trade-offs, and how to build a distributed limiter with an atomic Redis Lua script — a classic system design interview question, solved end to end.

Chaturmind TeamSep 26, 2026

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Resilient Microservices: Timeouts, Retries and Circuit Breakers Done Right

One slow dependency can take down a whole system. How timeouts, retries with backoff, circuit breakers and bulkheads work together — with Resilience4j examples for Spring Boot.

Chaturmind TeamSep 26, 2026

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Microservices Patterns Every Senior Engineer Should Know

Saga, circuit breaker, API gateway, event sourcing — the design patterns that make microservices work at scale and that interviewers ask about.

Chaturmind TeamSep 21, 2026

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CAP Theorem: What It Actually Means for System Design

CAP theorem says you can only pick 2 of 3 properties. But what does that mean in practice? And which systems are CP vs AP vs CA?

Chaturmind TeamSep 21, 2026

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Redis Caching Patterns Every Backend Engineer Should Know

Cache-aside, write-through, write-behind — different caching strategies have very different consistency guarantees. Know when to use each one.

Chaturmind TeamSep 21, 2026

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SQL vs NoSQL: How to Choose the Right Database

Choosing between SQL and NoSQL is one of the most common system design questions. Here's a principled framework — not just "it depends".

Chaturmind TeamSep 21, 2026

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How to Crack the System Design Interview

Most engineers fail system design interviews not because they lack knowledge, but because they lack a framework. Here's the repeatable 6-step approach that works.

Chaturmind TeamSep 21, 2026