Tag: kafka

All the articles with the tag "kafka".

• System Design: Video Streaming (YouTube/Netflix)

  Published:May 8, 2026 |  at 11:00 AM

  (11 min read)

  Designing a video streaming system — upload pipelines, transcoding at scale, adaptive bitrate streaming with HLS, CDN as core architecture, and the full YouTube-scale picture.

• System Design Message Queues: Decoupling Services at Scale

  Published:May 6, 2026 |  at 08:45 AM

  (6 min read)

  Message queues are why large systems don't collapse under their own weight. Here's the complete mental model — decoupling, Kafka vs RabbitMQ, and when to use each.