ByteByteGo

Code smarter with ByteByteGo's tech tutorials and insights online.

Articles: 83

ByteByteGo

28 Jun 2025, 15:30

Technology

What else will you add to better understand RAG vs Agentic RAG?

ByteByteGo

26 Jun 2025, 15:30

Database Indexing Demystified: Index Types and Use-Cases

Technology

In this article, we will explore the basic concept of database indexing and different index types.

ByteByteGo

24 Jun 2025, 15:30

Inside Airbnb’s AI-Powered Pipeline to Migrate Tests: Months of Work in Days

Technology

This article covers the structure of the automation pipeline, the trade-offs behind prompt engineering vs. brute-force retries, the methods used to handle complex edge cases, and the results that followed.

ByteByteGo

23 Jun 2025, 15:31

Object Oriented Design Interview Book is here — now available on Amazon!

Technology

*BIG* announcement: Our new book, Object Oriented Design Interview, is available on Amazon!

ByteByteGo

21 Jun 2025, 15:30

EP168: AI Vs Machine Learning Vs Deep Learning Vs Generative AI

Technology

What else will you add to understand these concepts better?

ByteByteGo

19 Jun 2025, 15:30

A Guide to Database Transactions: From ACID to Concurrency Control

Technology

In this article, we break down the key building blocks that make transactional systems reliable in the face of concurrency.

ByteByteGo

17 Jun 2025, 15:30

How the Google Cloud Outage Crashed the Internet

Technology

On June 12, 2025, a significant portion of the internet experienced a sudden outage. What started as intermittent failures on Gmail and Spotify soon escalated into a global infrastructure meltdown. For millions of users and hundreds of companies, critical apps simply stopped working.

ByteByteGo

14 Jun 2025, 15:30

EP167: Top 20 AI Concepts You Should Know

Technology

Which other AI concept will you add to the list?

ByteByteGo

12 Jun 2025, 15:30

Database Schema Design Simplified: Normalization vs Denormalization

Technology

The goal isn't to declare one approach as the winner. It's to understand their mechanics, consequences, and ideal use cases.

ByteByteGo

11 Jun 2025, 15:30

Technology

Note: This article is written in collaboration with the Shopify engineering team.

ByteByteGo

10 Jun 2025, 15:30

How Lyft Uses ML to Make 100 Million Predictions A Day

Technology

In this article, we'll look at how Lyft built an architecture to accomplish this requirement and the challenges they faced.

ByteByteGo

09 Jun 2025, 15:30

Our New Book, Mobile System Design Interview, Is Now Available

Technology

Our new book, Mobile System Design Interview, is available on Amazon!

ByteByteGo

07 Jun 2025, 15:30

Technology

The event sourcing paradigm is used to design a system with determinism. This changes the philosophy of normal system designs.

ByteByteGo

05 Jun 2025, 15:30

SQL vs NoSQL: Choosing the Right Database for An Application

Technology

In this article, we break down the core database paradigms, such as SQL and NoSQL, along with specialized database types and how developers can choose the appropriate database for their requirements.

ByteByteGo

03 Jun 2025, 15:30

Technology

Netflix is a masterclass in backend engineering at scale. Behind the seamless playback, tailored recommendations, and cross-device consistency lies an intricate architecture powered by Java.

ByteByteGo

31 May 2025, 15:30

Technology

Have you used AI Agents or MCP?

ByteByteGo

29 May 2025, 15:30

A Deep Dive into HTTP: From HTTP 1 to HTTP 3

Technology

In this article, we trace the HTTP journey. From the stateless, text-based simplicity of HTTP/1.1 to the encrypted, multiplexed, and mobile-optimized world of HTTP/3.

ByteByteGo

28 May 2025, 15:30

How Amazon Key Opens 100 Million Doors Every Year

Technology

We recently had the wonderful opportunity to sit with Kaushik Mani and Vijay Nagarajan from the Amazon Key team to learn how they built this system and the challenges they faced.

ByteByteGo

27 May 2025, 15:30

How Uber Eats Handles Billions of Daily Search Queries

Technology

In this article, we look at the breakdown of how Uber Eats rebuilt its search platform to handle this scale without degrading performance or relevance.

ByteByteGo

24 May 2025, 15:30

Technology

JWT or JSON Web Tokens is an open standard for securely transmitting information between two parties. They are widely used for authentication and authorization.

ByteByteGo

22 May 2025, 15:31

API Gateway vs Service Mesh - Which One Do You Need

Technology

In this article, we look at both API Gateways and Service Mesh in detail, along with their key differences and usage goals.

ByteByteGo

20 May 2025, 15:31

How Facebook Live Scaled to a Billion Users

Technology

In this article, we'll look at how Facebook Live was built and the kind of challenges they faced.

ByteByteGo

19 May 2025, 15:30

How Pinterest Scaled Its Architecture to Support 500 Million Users

Technology

In this article, we'll look at how Pinterest scaled its architecture to handle the scale and the challenges they faced along the way.

ByteByteGo

17 May 2025, 03:30

EP163: 12 MCP Servers You Can Use in 2025

Technology

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that simplifies how AI models, particularly LLMs, interact with external data sources, tools, and services.

ByteByteGo

15 May 2025, 15:30

Engineering Trade-offs: Eventual Consistency in Practice

Technology

Modern applications don't run on a single database or monolithic backend anymore. They run on event-driven, distributed systems.

ByteByteGo

13 May 2025, 15:30

How Slack Supports Billions of Daily Messages

Technology

At peak weekday hours, Slack maintains over five million simultaneous WebSocket sessions. That's not just a metric, but a serious architectural challenge.

ByteByteGo

10 May 2025, 15:30

EP162: 9 Clean Code Principles To Keep In Mind

Technology

Meaningful Names: Name variables and functions to reveal their purpose, not just their value.

ByteByteGo

08 May 2025, 15:30

Messaging Patterns Explained: Pub-Sub, Queues, and Event Streams

Technology

What happens when the downstream service is overloaded? Or slow? Or down entirely?

ByteByteGo

06 May 2025, 15:31

How Halo on Xbox Scaled to 10+ Million Players using the Saga Pattern

Technology

One powerful pattern for solving this problem is the Saga Pattern, a technique originally proposed in the late 1980s but increasingly relevant today.

ByteByteGo

05 May 2025, 15:30

How Canva Collects 25 Billion Events a Day

Technology

This article walks through how Canva structures, collects, and distributes billions of events daily, without drowning in tech debt and increasing cloud bills.

ByteByteGo

03 May 2025, 15:30

EP161: A Cheatsheet on REST API Design Best Practices

Technology

Well-designed APIs behave consistently, fair predictably, and grow without friction.

ByteByteGo

01 May 2025, 15:30

Synchronous vs Asynchronous Communication: When to Use What?

Technology

At some point, every system has to make a call: Should this interaction happen synchronously or asynchronously?