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Control Planes and Data Planes
A not-well-known pattern for designing better distributed systems.
Dec 20
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Franco Fernando
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Fundamental Graph Algorithms Part III: DFS On Directed Graphs
How depth-first search shines on directed graphs: topological sorting and strongly connected component algorithms
Dec 13
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Franco Fernando
15
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Fundamental Graph Algorithms - Part II: DFS
Depth First Search and its applications on undirected graphs: finding cycles and articulation vertices.
Dec 6
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Franco Fernando
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November 2025
Fundamental Graph Algorithms - Part I: BFS
Breadth First Search and its applications: shortest paths, connected components and bipartite testing.
Nov 29
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Franco Fernando
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How the Operating System Manages the Hardware
A Complete Guide to understand what happens when a program runs on your computer.
Nov 21
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Franco Fernando
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Scaling the data storage layer in system design
A quick journey through replication, partitioning, and NoSQL databases.
Nov 14
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Franco Fernando
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How to Estimate the Duration of a Task
Eight strategies you can use to give better estimations as a software engineer.
Nov 7
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Franco Fernando
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October 2025
Heap Use Cases Every Algorist Should Know
Three must to know practical applications of heap data structures: finding
Oct 31
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Franco Fernando
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Caching in Distributed Systems - Part III
Challenges of running caching in production environment: cache avalanche and penetration, traffic patterns, cold start, and consistency challenges.
Oct 24
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Franco Fernando
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Caching in Distributed Systems - Part II
An overview of more advanced cache concepts: read and write strategies, replacement policies, invalidation, and TTL.
Oct 17
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Franco Fernando
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Caching in Distributed Systems - Part I
From theory to production: cache performance, architecture, and deployment strategies.
Oct 10
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Franco Fernando
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Chain Replication
A different way to do replication in distributed systems that gives you high availability and throughput.
Oct 3
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Franco Fernando
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