“That was short but great time working with Sahil! He is a great team player as well as an individual contributor who doesn't only demonstrates ownership on the specific task he is working on for which he is able to easily dive deep, estimate efforts and deliver value by the date he commits. But also he is always focused on the engineering excellence of the team by automating recurring tasks, improving metrics and service's dashboards, ensuring issues are root caused even with very limited data. It will be great to have him back a part of my team in the future!”
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After two years of studying alongside a full-time career, I'm proud to share that I've completed my Graduate Diploma in Project and Supply Chain…
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Migration doesn't need to be rocket science. Yesterday Kiro and I migrated my blog from Ghost on Azure to AWS. The blog now runs on Hugo, a static…
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VS Code + Draw.io = thinking in diagrams I use Draw.io a lot to think through systems and complex problems. From large-scale architectures to…
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Ravi Kant
Almost every one who has gone through a system design interview, has proposed using a cache at some point of time in their design. A lot of people almost instantly go for a distributed/separate cache component like Redis, Memcache. However this is one of the places where senior engineers can justify and gain interviewer’s confidence about their levelling. For example, do you let the database handle caching, or do you set up distributed cache like Redis? Here’s how experienced engineers think about it 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲. Your database (like Postgres or MySQL) tries to keep important data in memory, automatically. When you send a query, the database checks what’s already in RAM before it goes to disk. You don’t need to write extra code or run new services. But if you try to scale out and add more database servers, sharing that cache becomes really hard. 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲, 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘀, 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹. Here, your app puts things directly into the cache. For example, user sessions, or ready-to-serve data. All your app servers can use it. It’s great for fast access and for sharing data between different parts of your system. But now you need to write code to keep the cache up to date, deal with things going missing, and avoid overloading your main database when there’s a cache miss. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗼𝗳𝗳? Database cache: simplest, works “for free,” but tied to one database. Distributed cache: powerful and scalable, but needs more work and care. 𝗦𝗼, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳? Who needs this data? Just one database box, or lots of servers? Are you caching simple disk pages (database cache), or objects and results (Redis)? What happens if the cache goes away for a few minutes? Will the database be able to keep up, or will it fall over? As your system gets bigger, is it easier to add more databases, more cache nodes, or both? Doing trade offs and making such nuanced decisions is what will establish your seniority in the interviews. Try this in your next interview and you can see the impact it makes. #systemdesign #faang #maang #softwareengineer #swe #interviews
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