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System Design

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Trade-offs, architecture patterns, and distributed systems thinking.

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A curated set of articles focused on system design.
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Architecture
Engineering Time Synchronization in a Real-Time Auction System: A Deep Dive into Clock Calibration at Scale
How we fixed a 54-second clock skew bug in our auction platform using NTP-inspired calibration, zero backend changes, and five lines of math.
Jun 19, 2026 · 30 min read · Article 1 of 2
Article 22/2
Architecture
System Design Trade-offs Every Engineer Should Understand
The real-world engineering decisions behind scalable systems-consistency vs availability, monolith vs microservices, sync vs async.
May 7, 2026 · 5 min read · Article 2 of 2