Pragya Sapkota articles - 82 total
Telemetry and Tracing: A Comprehensive Overview
We live in a time of complex distributed systems, where knowing what happens to an application in a...
A Comprehensive Guide to Multi-Tenancy Architecture
As cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) models rapidly dominate the software landscape,...
Chaos Engineering: Embracing Uncertainty
Web applications are getting more complex and interdependent by the day. This means we need to make...
Everything we know about Chrome Dino Game: From Game Mechanics to the Hacks
A small dino-shaped creature appears on our screen whenever our device is disconnected from the...
Beyond Money: The Impact of Enabling Widespread NFT Minting
The concept of Blockchain and NFT is rapidly revolutionizing the whole web landscape. Non-fungible...
Canary Release: For Deployment Success
For a software developer devoted to software development and continuous delivery, ensuring a smooth...
Lambda Architecture: Revolutionizing Data Processing for Big Data
We are living in a digital era where organizations deal with massive amounts of data generated from...
Consensus Algorithms: Paxos and Raft
Consensus Algorithms are the foundation of distributed computing systems. It enables multiple nodes...
API Gateway
We have API management tools that help create a bridge between a client and the backend services. As...
SSL, TLS, and mTLS
System Design has many background concepts that might not sound so important but are always good to...
Virtual Machines and Containers
What is a Virtual Machine? Virtual machines (VMs) are virtual environments that work as a...
Resilience
The term resilience means the ability of a system to keep functioning correctly and reliably in case...
Redundancy and Availability
Availability is the time portion when the system is up and running for a particular mission time. It...
Redundancy and Reliability
Reliability is the ability of a system with consistency and dependability to perform as expected...
Redundancy
Redundancy is the most common approach to making reliability and availability better in a system. To...
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Vs. OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC)
We previously discussed Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect...
Single Sign On (SSO)
SSO — Single Sign On is an authentication process where a user can access multiple applications using...
OpenID Connect
Previously, we talked about Open Authorization (OAuth 2.0). While the Open Authorization was...
Open Authorization (OAuth 2.0)
OAuth 2.0 is an authorization protocol that provides consented access to the available resources on...
Rate Limiting in Distributed Systems
Rate limiting is great with distributed systems but not without some complications. We already read...
Rate Limiting
We briefly discussed rate limiting in Endpoint Protection. Let’s see it in detail here. Rate...
Distributed Transactions
Distributed transactions are those operations held over the data across two or more databases. When...
Transactions
Transactions are a series of database operations. Each transaction is a single unit of the main task....
Message Brokers
Message brokers are a system that eases the communication between different applications, systems,...
N-Tier Architecture
The N-Tier Architecture is when the application is divided into logical layers and physical tiers so...
Service Discovery
Service discovery is a process of detecting services within network clusters. It works on Service...
Database Replication
The term database replication means sharing the data to make sure it stays consistent between...
Database Federation
In a database, when it needs to be split up by functions, we use federation architecture. In common...
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
TCP The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a connection-oriented service where the...
Database Indexes
The indexes in a database are a data structure that acts like a table of contents to point us toward...