Tag: performance

All the articles with the tag "performance".

• System Design Fundamentals: Performance & Scale

  Published:May 6, 2026 |  at 10:30 AM

  (11 min read)

  Understanding latency vs throughput and how to scale systems - the foundation of every system design decision.

• System Design CDN: Serving Content Fast Globally

  Published:May 6, 2026 |  at 09:00 AM

  (6 min read)

  CDN is geographically distributed caching. Here's the complete mental model — what goes on a CDN, TTL decisions, cache invalidation, and real-world architecture.

• The Journey to Smarter SQL - Building Reindeer's Lightning-Fast Autocomplete

  Published:Dec 12, 2025 |  at 10:00 AM

  (5 min read)

  A deep dive into the iterative process of building an AI-powered SQL autocomplete feature, highlighting the technical challenges of latency and cost, and the novel solution of local suggestion caching.