A collection of 15 posts
Hey, everyone. It's another weekend, and I was exploring what to build. So I decided to build a simple yet completely functional load balancer. Let's discuss it in this post. What is a load balancer? A load balancer is a component in a system that distributes
Read moreHi, It's been a long time since I wrote something in this newsletter. Recently I was learning about language parsing and abstract syntax trees. After getting some knowledge about this, I decided to write a JSON parser from scratch. Parsing: It is the process of analysing the structure
Read moreRedis is not just a key-value store; it is far beyond that. In this post we are going to discuss the same. Before discovering these use cases, I was using Redis just for simple key-value storage and as a database for my open-source rate limiter. 1. API Caching Layer We
Read moreRecently I've been learning about distributed systems and I came across a very interesting concept "Consistent Hashing". It is one of the most basic thing in Distributed Systems. What is Consistent Hashing? Consistent hashing is a key distribution technique that ensures easy and smooth mapping of
Read moreI made a configurable rate limiter. In this post I am going to talk about that. We will discuss its architecture and how it works. Rate Limiter Rate limiting is a technique that controls the number of requests that can be made to an API within a specific interval of
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