Databases

A practical guide to the Outbox and Inbox patterns for reliable asynchronous messaging in distributed systems. Learn how Outbox ensures safe event publishing and Inbox ensures idempotent event processing, with step-by-step diagrams and implementation insights.

This week: NoSQL interview questions and answers, YouTube Shorts generation via AI, Pinterest’s recommendation quality improvements, and Uber’s real-time OLAP with Apache Pinot.

This chapter explores NoSQL Databases questions that  .NET engineers should be able to answer in an interview.

This week, we look at consistency models in distributed systems, Uber’s adaptive benchmarking framework, LinkedIn’s evolution of its Venice ingestion pipeline, and Meta’s new open-source platform for adaptive experimentation.

Weekly tech digest: CAP theorem basics, Uber’s probabilistic heatmaps, Dropbox’s context-aware AI, and Lyft’s modern ML platform architecture.

In this article, we explore practical patterns for data versioning and schema evolution in NoSQL systems.

This week: MongoDB best practices, Netflix’s ML platform, Uber’s I/O observability at petabyte scale, and Google’s Coral NPU for edge AI.

 Walk through consistency models in distributed systems: Strong, bounded staleness, session, causal, and eventual consistency, explain how they work with examples, and help you understand when each model makes sense.

In this article, we explain the CAP theorem in simple terms: what Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance mean, why you can’t have all three, and how real systems balance them in practice.

This week, we dive into SQL performance tips, Uber’s approach to fault-tolerant analytics, and how TikTok cut AI costs in half with smart caching.

Practical MongoDB best practices guide for developers. Covers schema design, indexing, performance, queries, transactions, sharding, and common mistakes with examples and links to official docs.

This week: SQL interview prep for .NET engineers, Geocodio’s geocoding scalability journey, Netflix’s real-time live recommendations, and Airbnb’s LLM-powered GraphQL mocking.