# Better Engineering — RSS Amplifier Everything Better Engineering publishes, via the RSS Amplifier directory. Page: Feed: --- ## [How to Design a Distributed Messaging Queue](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/how-to-design-a-distributed-messaging) _2026-08-14 · Better Engineers_ The commit log, partitions, replication, consumer groups, and exactly-once delivery behind Kafka, RabbitMQ, and SQS ## [Clean Code - Stop Writing Comments. Write Better Code Instead.](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/clean-code-stop-writing-comments) _2026-08-04 · Better Engineers_ Before Start lets check you System Design knowledge ## [How WhatsApp Handled 1 Billion Users with 50 Engineers](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/how-whatsapp-handled-1-billion-users) _2026-08-01 · Better Engineers_ The Erlang actor model, FreeBSD networking, and the protocol decisions behind the world’s most efficient messaging system ## [Why Your Code Is Slow to Read — and How to Fix It in One Hour](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/why-your-code-is-slow-to-read-and) _2026-07-27 · Better Engineers_ I once spent 45 minutes reading a function before I understood what it did. ## [Stripe System Design](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/how-to-design-a-payment-service) _2026-07-23 · Better Engineers_ Idempotency, double-entry ledger, SAGA pattern, reconciliation, and the architecture behind every fintech system ## [System Design - How to Design a Distributed Task Scheduler](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/system-design-how-to-design-a-distributed) _2026-07-18 · Better Engineers_ The system behind every cron job at scale — leader election, exactly-once execution, partitioning, and failure recovery ## [How to Design a URL Shortener at Scale](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/how-to-design-a-url-shortener-at) _2026-07-13 · Better Engineers_ The consistent hashing, Base62 encoding, Bloom filters, and analytics pipeline behind Bitly and TinyURL ## [How to Design a Ticket Ordering System at Scale](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/how-to-design-a-concert-ticket-ordering) _2026-07-12 · Better Engineers_ Redis atomic locks, Kafka rate limiting, WebSocket delivery, and a loyalty card system — the complete interview answer ## [9 Best Practices for Developing Microservices](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/9-best-practices-for-developing-microservices) _2026-07-09 · Better Engineers_ The complete engineering guide — from database isolation to orchestration, with real code, anti-patterns, and production lessons ## [How Instagram Scaled from 0 to 1 Billion Users with 3 Engineers](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/how-instagram-scaled-from-0-to-1) _2026-07-06 · Better Engineers_ The PostgreSQL sharding, CDN, caching, and 64-bit ID decisions that made it possible ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1D1dW9gQbuIx) _2026-07-06 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [Securing Your Microservices: The Complete Engineer’s Guide](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/securing-your-microservices-the-complete) _2026-07-05 · Better Engineers_ OAuth 2.0, JWT, Rate Limiting, API Gateways, and HTTPS — everything you need to lock down your services ## [How Stripe Achieves 99.999% Uptime](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/how-stripe-achieves-99999-uptime) _2026-07-03 · Better Engineers_ Idempotency, distributed locks, and the payment infrastructure behind $1 trillion in transactions ## [How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages) _2026-06-30 · Better Engineers_ MongoDB → Cassandra → ScyllaDB → Rust: The database migration story every engineer needs to read ## [How Uber Migrated from a Monolith to 2,200 Microservices](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/how-uber-migrated-from-a-monolith) _2026-06-29 · Better Engineers_ A decade of architectural decisions, database rewrites, and hard-won lessons — the full teardown ## [How We Monitor Spring Boot Applications in AKS: From Logs to Alerts and Distributed Tracing](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/how-we-monitor-spring-boot-applications) _2026-06-25 · Better Engineers_ Observability & Logging Architecture on AKS — Metrics, Logs, Traces, Alerts, and Dashboards ## [How to Design a Notification System: Frontend + Backend](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/how-to-design-a-notification-system) _2026-06-23 · Better Engineers_ The complete engineering guide — from a bell icon click to a push arriving on 50 million devices ## [Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) Explained With Real Examples](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/dead-letter-queue-dlq-explained-with) _2026-06-22 · Better Engineers_ The one system design pattern that separates engineers who sleep at night from those who don’t ## [10 Architecture Types You Should Know as a Backend Engineer](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/10-architecture-types-you-should) _2026-06-14 · Better Engineers_ 10 Popular Architecture Styles, explained with real trade-offs, real examples, and honest opinions. ## [The Complete Java Backend Developer Roadmap](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/the-complete-java-backend-developer) _2026-06-13 · Better Engineers_ 12 phases · From writing your first class to shipping cloud-native systems ## [One OS for your AI workforce (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/NSbhEMzrw4OR) _2026-06-13 · **Sponsored**_ Build, direct, and supervise AI teams from a single operations workspace ## [How Netflix Serves ML Predictions to 250M Users at 1 Million Requests Per Second](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/how-netflix-serves-ml-predictions) _2026-05-30 · Better Engineers_ A deep dive into Switchboard — the custom routing layer Netflix built when AWS API Gateway wasn’t enough