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Arpit Bhayani: Asli Engineering
Internals of databases, caches and distributed algorithms with practical examples.
By Arpit Bhayani · Asli Engineering · Added 2026-08-06
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I am a software engineer passionate about System Architecture, Language Internals, Distributed databases, and Advanced Algorithms. I am on a mission to bring out the best engineering stories from around the world. If you are doing something interesting and want me to dissect and talk about it, drop me an email at…
A talk or video. Watch it with a pause button handy: it is easiest to follow once you know the basic vocabulary.
- Who it suits
- You are comfortable with distributed-systems trade-offs and want depth.
- From
- Asli Engineering: see more from them
- Design areas it touches
- Caching and CDNDatabases and storageReplication, consistency and consensus
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- Which number or limit forced their main decision?
- What did they try first, and why did it stop working?
- What did they choose not to build?
After
- What would break first if traffic grew tenfold?
- What did they trade away to get what they wanted?
- Explain the design in three sentences, without looking.
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