SQL

Learn the most common unit test anti-patterns in .NET, over-mocking, testing implementation details, flaky async, assertion roulette, and how to fix them.

This week: NoSQL interview questions and answers, YouTube Shorts generation via AI, Pinterest’s recommendation quality improvements, and Uber’s real-time OLAP with Apache Pinot.

This chapter explores NoSQL Databases questions that  .NET engineers should be able to answer in an interview.

 Walk through consistency models in distributed systems: Strong, bounded staleness, session, causal, and eventual consistency, explain how they work with examples, and help you understand when each model makes sense.

In this article, we explain the CAP theorem in simple terms: what Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance mean, why you can’t have all three, and how real systems balance them in practice.

This week, we dive into SQL performance tips, Uber’s approach to fault-tolerant analytics, and how TikTok cut AI costs in half with smart caching.

This week: SQL interview prep for .NET engineers, Geocodio’s geocoding scalability journey, Netflix’s real-time live recommendations, and Airbnb’s LLM-powered GraphQL mocking.

Practical SQL best practices for developers and DBAs. Learn how to design clean schemas, write readable and efficient queries, avoid common mistakes, and keep your database secure and fast

This chapter explores SQL Database questions that  .NET engineers should be able to answer in an interview.

Weekly tech digest: pagination strategies for large datasets, Uber’s rebuilt Apache Pinot query architecture, and Meta’s ML-based notification ranking system for Instagram.

Learn efficient SQL pagination techniques: offset, keyset, cursor, snapshot, hybrid & more. Understand trade-offs, use cases, and best practices.

This week in the Weekend Reading Digest: database normalization guides, Hotstar’s real-time emoji system, Uber’s safe monorepo deployments, and Expedia’s Iceberg Write-Audit-Publish workflow.

A beginner-friendly guide to understanding ACID in databases. Learn Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability in simple terms, using SQL examples and real-world analogies, for junior developers.

A hands-on walkthrough of standard forms using a real-world online retail example. We’ll fix anomalies step by step, show the decompositions, and keep performance trade-offs in mind.

Master ASP.NET Core for interviews! Explore middleware, routing, DI, caching, & security with expert Q&A for junior to senior .NET devs.

Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.

This article considers popular options for storing hierarchical data in SQL and NoSQL databases.

Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.

This article explores essential data integration patterns, including ETL, ELT, Change Data Capture (CDC), Data Federation, Data Virtualization, Data Replication, Publish/Subscribe, Request/Reply, and Point-to-Point Integration. Learn how and when to use these patterns for efficient data handling and real-time analytics.

This article discovers the differences between ETL and ELT processes and how they could be used for data integration.