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This week’s digest (2026-W46)
Trending resources
- Scalable Web Architecture and Distributed SystemsKate Matsudaira · Blogs
- 10 Tips for Building Resilient Payment SystemsShopify Engineering · Case Studies
- Amazon Architecture - High Scalability -High Scalability engineers · Case Studies
- The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users, 300K QPS, a 22 MB/S Firehose, and Send Tweets in Under 5 SecondsHigh Scalability engineers · Case Studies
- Kafka Source & DocsApache Software Foundation · GitHub
New this week
- Nothing new this week.
Architecture insight
Airbnb: MySQL: Listings, calendars and reservations. Explore
Interview preparation
- Challenge: Design WhatsAppDesign a one-to-one and group chat system with delivery receipts.
- Quiz: MicroservicesBoundaries, data ownership, resilience and consistency.