Tag: design-system

All the articles with the tag "design-system".

• Envoy Proxy: The Invisible Backbone of Microservices

  6 Apr, 2026

  system design basics - Envoy proxy, north-south vs east-west traffic, its operating modes, how it competes with Nginx, and its relationship with Istio.

• System Design - Proxy vs Reverse Proxy

  5 Apr, 2026

  system design basics - forward proxy vs reverse proxy, differences, use cases, and examples

• System Design - How TiDB TSO (Timestamp Oracle) Works

  28 Mar, 2026

  How TiDB's Timestamp Oracle (TSO) works: architecture, 64-bit timestamp layout, allocation algorithm, etcd persistence, client batching, and source code walkthrough from the tikv/pd repository.

• System Design - Load Balancing

  29 Jun, 2025

  system design basics - load balancing

• System Design - All about Caching

  18 Jun, 2025

  system design basics, all about caching (cache)