An Insight Into the Backend Infrastructure Of A Modern Digital Bank – Monzo Architecture
Monzo is a digital, mobile-only, bank based in the United Kingdom. It is one of the earliest app-based digital banks in the UK. Monzo set a record for the quickest crowd-funding campaign in history raising 1 million pounds in 96 seconds via the CrowdCube investment…
An Insight Into How Uber Scaled From A Monolith To A Microservice Architecture
Uber started its service from San Francisco with a monolithic repo. The solo repo held the business logic for matching drivers and the riders, running background checks, taking care of the billing and the payment and all the other related functionalities. For a full list…
Facebook Real-time Chat Architecture Scaling With Over Multi-Billion Messages Daily
This is my second write-up on Facebook architecture. In the first, I covered the databases, the persistence tech used @Facebook. In this write-up, I will talk about the real-time chat architecture of Facebook which scales with over multi-billion messages sent every single day. What technologies…
Twitter’s Migration to Google Cloud – An Architectural Insight
This is my second write-up on the infrastructure @Twitter. In the first, I delved into the database technologies leveraged by the social platform to store petabytes of data generated every single day. Twitter needs no introduction, it’s is one of the most popular social networks…
What Database Does Twitter Use? – A Deep Dive
This write-up is a deep insight into the persistence layer of Twitter. It does answer all our questions about it in-depth such as What database does it use? Is it SQL, NoSQL, a polyglot persistent system? How does it store hundreds of millions of tweets…
Instagram Architecture & Database – How Does It Store & Search Billions of Images
Instagram is the most popular photo-oriented social network on the planet today. With over a billion users, it has become the first choice for businesses to run their marketing campaigns on. This write-up is a deep dive into its platform architecture & addresses questions like…
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