Tag: design-system
All the articles with the tag "design-system".
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System Design - How Lock-Free Data Structures Work
How lock-free data structures work: CAS operations, memory ordering, the ABA problem, lock-free stacks and queues, and source code walkthrough from the Linux kernel and Java's java.util.concurrent.
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System Design - How Zero-Copy I/O Works
How zero-copy I/O works in Linux: the cost of traditional read/write, how sendfile() and splice() eliminate copies, how mmap fits in, and why Kafka and nginx are fast — with ASCII diagrams and kernel source code references.
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System Design - How Go's Goroutine Scheduler Works
How Go's goroutine scheduler works: the GMP model (Goroutines, OS Threads, Processors), work stealing, preemption, netpoller integration, and a source code walkthrough from the Go runtime.
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System Design - How Columnar Storage Works
How columnar storage works: row vs column layout, compression techniques, vectorized execution, Apache Parquet internals, and why modern analytics engines like ClickHouse and DuckDB are so fast.
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System Design - How Raft Consensus Works
How the Raft consensus algorithm works: leader election, log replication, safety guarantees, membership changes, and source code walkthrough from the etcd/raft implementation.
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System Design - How eBPF Works
How eBPF works in the Linux kernel: architecture, program types, the verifier, JIT compilation, maps for state sharing, helper functions, and real-world use cases in observability, networking, and security.