System Design

High Level Design (HLL) vs Low Level Design (LLD)

🧩 HLD vs LLD in Software Design Both HLD (High-Level Design) and LLD (Low-Level Design) are crucial steps in software architecture, but they serve different purposes and audiences. 🔷 1....

⏱️ Standard Latency Benchmarks in System Design

In system design, latency refers to how long it takes for an operation to complete, such as a request, a disk I/O, or a network call. There’s no absolute “standard,” but...

Latency vs Throughput

Both latency and throughput are performance metrics, but they measure very different aspects of a system — especially in networking, APIs, and distributed systems. 📌 1. What is Latency? Latency...

Load Balancers Vs API Gateways

Great question — many developers confuse Load Balancers and API Gateways because they both sit in front of backend services. However, they serve different roles in an application architecture. 🧭...

CDN Vs API Gateway

CDN (Content Delivery Network) and API Gateway serve very different roles in modern architectures, though both act as intermediaries between clients and servers. Here’s a breakdown to clarify their purposes,...

What is Elastic Search?

Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine designed for fast full-text search and real-time data analysis. It's built on Apache Lucene and is commonly used for log analytics,...