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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Design a photo-sharing platform similar to Instagram where users can upload their photos and share it with their followers. High Level Design. Component Design. API Design. We have provided the API design of posting an image on Instagram below. Problem Statement. Sending and receiving messages from other users.

Design 334
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Building Resiliency With Effective Error Management

DZone

Datacenter - data center failure where the whole DC could become unavailable due to power failure, network connectivity failure, environmental catastrophe, etc. Redundancy in power, network, cooling systems, and possibly everything else relevant. this is addressed through monitoring and redundancy. Again the approach here is the same.

Hardware 243
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Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage

The Morning Paper

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. have altered the many assumptions that guided the design and optimization of the Snowflake system. From shared-nothing to disaggregation.

Storage 112
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Dynatrace chooses Denver for latest expansion in North America

Dynatrace

Its design fosters collaboration and innovation, providing space for up to 400 software intelligence experts in Denver’s vibrant LoDo neighborhood. The new office provides an innovative design. It offers multifunctional and numerous common areas where teams can network, hold meetings, or tackle challenging tasks.

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Weekend Reading: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.

All Things Distributed

We decided to use our inventive powers to design and build a new database engine that would give database systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL reliability and performance at scale, at a level that could serve even the most demanding OLTP applications.

Database 117
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Disaster Recovery for PostgreSQL on Kubernetes

Percona

pgBackrest on the Main site streams backups and Write Ahead Logs (WALs) to the object storage. Once installed, configure the Custom Resource manifest so that pgBackrest starts using the Object Storage of your choice. In this case, you can be sure that Main really failed, and it is not a network split situation.

Storage 120
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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130