JSON
Semi Structured Data Architecture: JSON Pipelines That Stay Useful
How JSON, XML, and flexible payloads move into document stores, lakehouses, search, and analytics.
Relational Data
Relational Data Architecture: OLTP, CDC, and Warehouses
A practical architecture for relational data from OLTP systems into search indexes, read models, and analytics stores.
Structured Data
Structured Data Architecture: From Tables to Trusted Analytics
How table shaped data moves through ETL into warehouses, lakehouses, dashboards, and searchable business records.
Data
Everything Data: The Asset Behind Modern Software
A practical map of data types from simple values to structured, relational, geospatial, time series, event, graph, metadata, and vector data.
Coordination
ZooKeeper: Coordination for Distributed Systems
A practical explanation of ZooKeeper as a coordination service for leader election, locks, and shared metadata.
Benchmarking
YCSB: A Useful Benchmark for Data Stores
How to think about YCSB as a benchmark for comparing data stores under repeatable workloads.
Transactions
XID: One Transaction Id Across Systems
How a globally unique transaction id helps operators and systems connect all records from the same distributed transaction.
Durability
Write Ahead Log: Write Intent Before State
Why a write ahead log makes crash recovery and replication safer.
Versioning
Vector Clocks: Track Which Version Saw Which
A simple explanation of vector clocks and how they detect concurrent updates.