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Jul 11, 2026Intro to System Design: For Uni Student
Hey there, my name is Frederick Octo Ramadani, and I’m a student at Telkom University Bandung (ahh...
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I Spent a Decade Chasing Microservices Before Realizing What Scalability Actually Means
A few years ago, I was staring at a red, blinking monitoring dashboard. The system I was looking at...
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May 13, 2026Building a Subscription Management System That Actually Scales
Here’s what I learned building a subscription management system from scratch. If you’ve...
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May 9, 2026Scaling Myths That Mislead Developers
Why common assumptions about scaling lead to fragile systems Scaling is often seen as a...
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May 7, 2026Why Your APIs Feel Slow (Even When They Aren’t)
Understanding the gap between actual performance and perceived latency In previous parts,...
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May 3, 2026Observability: You Can’t Fix What You Can’t See
Understanding system behavior beyond logs and dashboards In previous parts, we explored...
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May 1, 2026Load Testing: Why Most Developers Do It Wrong
Why testing for stability often hides the real limits of your system In previous parts, we...
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Apr 29, 2026How I Built a Decision-Tree Based Help and Support System
80% of user problems are repeated patterns. So why are we solving them manually...
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Apr 21, 2026Designing Systems That Don’t Collapse Under Pressure
How to build backend systems that continue to work even when things go wrong In earlier...
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Apr 19, 2026Why Your Database Becomes the Bottleneck
Why most backend performance issues eventually lead back to the database In Part 1, we saw...
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Apr 19, 2026Rate Limiting: The Most Underrated Backend Skill
Why controlling traffic matters more than handling it In Part 1, we saw how systems...
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Apr 17, 2026Why Your Database Becomes the Bottleneck
Why most backend performance issues eventually lead back to the database In Part 1, we saw...
Apr 17, 20262 min read0 reactions0 comments