Tag: kafka

All the articles with the tag "kafka".

• System Design: CQRS and Event Sourcing

  Published:Jun 1, 2026 |  at 06:00 AM

  (6 min read)

  Command Query Responsibility Segregation — why reads and writes fight in one database, how to separate them with events, and where you've already seen CQRS in every system we designed.

• System Design: Google Drive — Collaborative Document Editing

  Published:Jun 1, 2026 |  at 06:00 AM

  (16 min read)

  Designing Google Drive at scale — operational transformation, optimistic client updates, snapshot + operation log storage, presence, and handling 10M write operations per second.

• System Design: Video Conferencing with Transcription and AI

  Published:Jun 1, 2026 |  at 06:00 AM

  (10 min read)

  Designing a video conferencing platform with real-time transcription and AI inference — WebRTC/SFU, GPU transcription pipelines, three-tier latency architecture, and storage at 50k-team scale.