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Curious Engineer

Vivek Bansal

This newsletter is about learning engineering concepts from basic to advanced. I promise to write a well-researched article every week!

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How to implement a Circuit Breaker

What is a Circuit Breaker?

Imagine you’re at home and plug too many devices into a single socket. The socket will withdraw so much current that the wires behind it might overheat and cause a fire. To prevent this situation, a circuit br...

a year ago
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How to implement Consistent Hashing

Quick Recap

In today’s world, everyone knows that data cannot be stored in a single datastore node beyond a certain threshold. That’s because there is a physical limit to how much you can expand your machine's memory. That’s why horizon...

a year ago
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How to implement Optimistic Locking

Quick Recap

Optimistic locking and Pessimistic locking are popular concurrency control mechanisms used in computer science. These strategies rely on one simple question: How often do you want to make an update that might be conflicting...

a year ago
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1 year to Curious Engineer 🎉

It’s been one year since I started this newsletter ()! While a year might seem like a short time, maintaining the consistency to publish an article every week has required significant energy and careful time management.

In this edition, I...

2 years ago
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Message Queues v/s Message Brokers

As is tradition with my newsletter topics, I selected this topic out of curiosity to study the difference between Message Queues and Message Brokers. Without further ado, let’s get started.

Problem Statement

Before deep diving in, let...

2 years ago
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