The Coding Gopher
Unfiltered software engineering. Deep dives into complex architectures: Redis, PostgreSQL, Terraform, etc. Backend development, system design, and the stuff tutorials skip.
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ACID vs BASE Databases
Two competing philosophies of database consistency, and why the tradeoff between them still defines how modern systems are built
Every database has to make a promise about what happens when things go wrong — a server crashes mid-write, two...
The 10 Most Important Database Concepts
A field guide to multi-version concurrency control, write-ahead logging, B-trees vs. LSM-trees, distributed consensus, two-phase commit, optimistic locking, consistent hashing, & more
The basics — ACID, indexes, joins, replication — get yo...
Python Decorators Explained
If you’ve spent any time reading modern codebases—especially in Python or TypeScript—you’ve likely encountered the @ symbol perched above a function or class. That is a decorator.
A decorator is a special design pattern or tool in progra...
C++ Smart Pointers Explained
Smart pointers are object wrappers around raw pointers in C++ designed to automate memory management. By leveraging the stack lifecycle, they ensure that dynamically allocated heap memory is automatically deleted when it is no longer needed...
Saga Pattern vs Two-Phase Commit (distributed transactions)
When a single business operation has to touch multiple databases, you have two real options for keeping them consistent — and they trade correctness for availability in opposite directions
A single “place order” operation might need to res...
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