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Practical conversations about tools, technology and architecting systems // Hosts: @_alternatewolf @mazibayo @chidiwilliams__

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How POS Transactions work
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How [interbank] transfers work.
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We're excited to announce the maiden version of our annual conference -- SysConf -- which will bring together tech operators and experts to share their knowledge and experiences. It will take place virtually on Sat, September 16th, 2023.
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How Card Transactions work
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Hi everyone, next Sunday (March 5th), we'll be having a lecture titled: "What Happens When You Type in a URL into a Browser" with @TiemmaBakare . In this lecture, we'll uncover layers of abstraction from the browser application to the OS of the DB server.
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SysDsgn is starting a book club, and the first book we're reading is Database Internals by @ifesdjeen . Find out more details here: We'll have our first chapter review space on Feb 25th, 2024, by 6pm GMT.
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We’re back for the new year! 🎉 This Sunday, we’ll be having Shalvah Adebayo ( @theshalvah ) speak about observability, monitoring, and more. Set your reminders — we’re looking forward to having you!
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We’re excited to announce that a date has been set for our next conversation. We’ll dig into Database Internals with @TiemmaBakare . More details to follow!
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We’re excited to announce our next conversation: Programming Languages, Interpreters & Compilers with Bob Nystrom ( @munificentbob ). Bob is the author of Crafting Interpreters, a book two of our hosts used to enter the world of programming languages, so we are very excited!
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We've created a Spotify podcast to house all the recordings of our spaces to make it easy to playback each session: . We'll release them on other platforms as time permits.
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We're very excited to announce our next conversation: All Things Data Engineering Our guest speaker is the CEO & Founder of @voyancehq , Ebot Tabi @ebottabi Please reply this tweet with questions you’ll like answered at the session. It’ll be 💣 💥 🔥
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Hi there, next week we’ll dig into Slack’s architecture!
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Hi everyone, we’re back! For our next conversation, we’ll be trying something different: discussing a paper! The title of the paper is: An Introduction to Programming with Threads (link attached)
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Books @MoVonLagos mentioned: The Dream Machine. The Elements of Style. Site Reliability Engineering. Designing Data Intensive Applications.
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We're very excited to announce our next conversation: Tech, Eden, and living a stress-free life Our guest speaker is the CTO of @ouredenlife , Prosper Otemuyiwa @unicodeveloper .
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How ATM Transactions work
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We’re happy to announce we’re hosting an event this Thursday at The Nest Lounge, Lagos. We’ll have talks from the SysDsgn community—and snacks and merch as well! Get tickets here: (We have very limited seats, so pls only get tickets if you can make it!)
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How @monnify 's account transfer works.
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DBMS Architecture
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We're very excited to announce our next conversation: Payment Systems & Monnify. Our guest speaker is the CTO of @TeamAptHQ , Felix Ike ( @ik_felix ), who has tremendous experience with payment systems.
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Hi everyone, we're excited to announce our next conversation: SSH Internals with Moses Koledoye ( @MoVonLagos ) on Sun, April 16th, 2023, at 6pm GMT. Moses is a Senior SRE at Google that has worked extensively on distributed systems, particularly with SSH.
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We tried to be more consistent this year with our podcast, and we’re excited to see the result: more people listened to and learned from our episodes. Thanks everyone — we have much more in store 😁🎉.
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Hi everyone, we’re excited to announce our next conversation: Kernel Architectures with Great Umegbewe ( @0xGreat ) and Emmanuel Bakare ( @TiemmaBakare ). It will happen next Sunday (13-Aug) at 7pm WAT.
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Hi everyone, we're excited to announce our next conversation: How Sine Waves Help Cloudflare Optimise Reboots with Ope Onikute ( @Ope__O ).
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It’s time for another #systemdesigntuesday conversation! 🔔 Today we’ll be designing Slack! Of course Slack is a pretty huge app so we won’t be designing all the features of the app. We’ll focus on two parts: - Messaging - Channels #systemdesigntuesday
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We've published SSH Internals by @MoVonLagos , a lecture-style conversation, on our YouTube channel . Watch, leave a comment and subscribe 😁.
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We're excited to announce our next conversation: APIs & the APIToolKit with Anthony Alaribe ( @tonialaribe ). It will happen next Sunday (29-Oct) at 7 pm WAT.
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Tomorrow by 6pm GMT, our book club will review Chapter 8 of DB Internals. The conversation will be led by @TiemmaBakare and hosted by @chidiwilliams__ . To join the conversations tomorrow, join our discord server: .
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On that note, if you (or your company) would like to give a talk at the conference, please look at our CFP link: . The link will open for applications on July 28th and close Aug 12th.
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It's time for #systemdesigntuesday 🔔 Today's system is a video conferencing application. Questions: 1. What runtime system(s) do you think you should not use for this, and why?
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With our next conversation requiring a paper study, we thought we'd provide a framework you might find helpful. Kindly read .
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Join us this Sunday by 5 pm GMT to review Chapter 1 of Database Internals by @ifesdjeen .
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Btw, we’re now accepting talk proposals! You can apply via the link below. ( We’re already seeing some exciting proposals 😁)
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On that note, if you (or your company) would like to give a talk at the conference, please look at our CFP link: . The link will open for applications on July 28th and close Aug 12th.
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It’s time for another #systemdesigntuesday conversation! 🔔 Today we’ll be building a cloud storage service like Google Drive! We’ll be focused on file upload and folder creation.
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Excited to announce a date and time for our next conversation. We’ll be hosting @rtukpe , CTO of @getconvoy (YC W22), who will tell us the problem Convoy is trying to solve and how this has affected their architectural choices. Save the date!
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Yuuuuppp 🔔 It’s time for today’s conversation. You’re to design a code deployment system. The system is to take code, build it into binary and deploy to servers across multiple regions. #systemdesigntuesday
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Announcement 📣📣 We’ll be changing things a little bit, so our Tuesday conversations will now happen on Discord 🎉🎉🎉 You can join the Discord server using this link (expires in 1 day):
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Excited to announce our next conversation: Table Statistics and Histograms in DBs. Our guest speaker, @rxrog , has done some work on histograms for @mariadb .
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Ahead of the upcoming AMA with @MoVonLagos , we'd like to compile some questions from attendees. Please add your questions here: . You can also upvote existing questions -- questions with more votes will have a higher priority.
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Errrr…mic check… It’s today!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳
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Hi everyone! We’re excited to announce our next conversation: Kainene / Building AI-powered Software with Justin Irabor ( @TheVunderkind ).
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Furthermore, we are seeking volunteers to help us prepare for and run the conference to the highest quality possible. If you're interested, pls apply here: , and we will reach out. Thank you!
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Here’s the outline for this session - really, really exciting. One hour flies quickly in sessions like these, but we’ll try to go through as much as we can.
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We are passionate about promoting technical excellence and furthering technical knowledge in Africa (and beyond), and we are confident that this conference will take us a step further to achieve this vision.
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The conversation will happened on March 19th at 5pm GMT. Set a reminder !
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Less than 15minutes to our first conversation. You ready? #systemdesigntuesday
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We've published "APIs & the APIToolKit" on Spotify & Apple Podcasts. Cc: @tonialaribe .
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Join us this Sunday by 5pm GMT to review Chapter 2 of Database Internals by @ifesdjeen . @haile_lagi will lead discussions this week! See you soon.
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Our book club is done with Part 1 of DB Internals, and before we shift to Part 2, we're hosting a Q&A session @ifesdjeen (Author of DB Internals) for Part 1. If you'd like to join the conversation, join our Discord server: .
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We'll finish reviewing chapter 7 of DB Internals: Log-Structured Storage tomorrow, Tuesday, 23rd April, by 6:30 pm GMT. @mr_dubex will lead the conversations, which will be held on Meets via a link we'll share in our Discord channel. Join us: .
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Hey, everyone! Join us on Sunday as we review Chapter 10 — Leader Election — of DB internals. @paschalobba will lead the discussion and @ajibigad will host. See you all soon! Join our server to get the meeting link when it’s time: .
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UPDATE 📣 The space will now hold next Sunday. Our sincerest apologies to those who planned to listen in today 🙏🏽 Please share, so everyone knows, and more people can plan to attend. It’ll be 🤯💥
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We're very excited to announce our next conversation: Tech, Eden, and living a stress-free life Our guest speaker is the CTO of @ouredenlife , Prosper Otemuyiwa @unicodeveloper .
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conversation. The proposed date for this space is October 30th by 7pm (WAT). We'll create the space at later date and communicate via this account. See you soon!
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It’s almost 7pm so get ready for today’s conversation. To keep things a bit more organized than last time, we’ll be disabling replies to the original tweet, so you can quote the tweet with your answers. Today is gonna be fun! #systemdesigntuesday
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Happening today, see you soon! Plus we’ll have some announcements about @sysconf_ and answer questions too.
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Hi everyone, we’re excited to announce our next conversation: Kernel Architectures with Great Umegbewe ( @0xGreat ) and Emmanuel Bakare ( @TiemmaBakare ). It will happen next Sunday (13-Aug) at 7pm WAT.
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HDD vs SSD.
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We’re out of tickets now but we’re looking to get a few more seats. We’ll send an update soon!
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We’re extending this for 2 more weeks! The link will now close Sat, Aug 26th, 2023. We will start reviewing proposals and reaching out to accepted speakers from next week. Also, please follow our sub-account @sysconf_ to get the latest updates on the conference.
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On that note, if you (or your company) would like to give a talk at the conference, please look at our CFP link: . The link will open for applications on July 28th and close Aug 12th.
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Join us this today to discuss Chapter 7 of Database Internals by @ifesdjeen . The conversation will be led by @mr_dubex . See you soon!
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Page Structures: Triplets vs Slotted Pages
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Hey everyone, join us in ~1hr as we discuss Chapter 6 of Database Internals by @ifesdjeen . Discussions will be led by @Ahuoyiza_ and co-hosted by @haile_lagi and @_alternatewolf . See you all soon!
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The CFP link will remain open for 10 more days! If you’re interested in giving a talk at SysConf, submit an application soon 😃. We look forward to reviewing!
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On that note, if you (or your company) would like to give a talk at the conference, please look at our CFP link: . The link will open for applications on July 28th and close Aug 12th.
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Join me in my Space!
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Join us today as we review Chapter 3 of Database Internals by @ifesdjeen . The conversation today will be led by @chidiwilliams__ . See you soon!
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What Happens When You Type in a URL into a Browser w @TiemmaBakare
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We are liveeee 🎉🎉🎉
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Created @SystemTuesday for the TL conversations and intermittent tweets on resources, interview tips, e.t.c. TL conversations will be on Tuesdays at 7pm with the hashtag #systemdesigntuesday . Follow, subscribe to notifications and engage in the conversations. See you tomorrow!
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We'll share a Meets link for people to join closer to the time, and we'll stream live on Twitter for those who can't join. Mark your calendars!
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Tomorrow, our book club will review Chapter 9 of DB Internals by @ifesdjeen . The conversation will be led by @chidiwilliams__ and hosted by @haile_lagi . To join the conversation, join our server: . See you all.
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This is happening tonight; we look forward to seeing you there!
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Hi everyone! We’re excited to announce our next conversation: Kainene / Building AI-powered Software with Justin Irabor ( @TheVunderkind ).
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Save the date 😄!
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We're calling on the SysDsgn community/listeners to fill out our feedback form: . We'd like to know if the conversations have helped you in one way or another, and we'd also like to know your expectations for #SysConf23 😁.
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Observability Basics [PDF]:
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Binary Search Trees
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TIL: MongoDB (mostly) ignores your indexes when you use negative operators (h/t @rxrog )
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In 30minutes, we’ll be having today’s #systemdesigntuesday conversation on Discord! Link to stream will be shared once it’s time!
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We’re grateful to Moses and all the speakers who share their expertise with our community. These conversations really matter ❤️
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I gave a talk on SSH internals with @sysdsgn about a year ago.
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It’s today, see you at 6pm!
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Excited to announce our next conversation: Table Statistics and Histograms in DBs. Our guest speaker, @rxrog , has done some work on histograms for @mariadb .
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Another Tuesday is here 🎉🎉 Sadly, we won’t be having our conversation tonight, but there’s an important announcement. Based on feedback from some of us who have engaged in the conversations so far, we’ve decided to make a little adjustment to how we have conversations.
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Join us as we review Chapter 5 of Database Internals by @ifesdjeen . The conversation today will be led by @ajibigad ! See you by 5 pm GMT.
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It also needs to be fast, and you’re to make it possible for users to see deployment history. What do you think are very important components/services of such a system, and how will you build them? #systemdesigntuesday
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We will post more details as the date draws nearer.
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We are excited to receive and review your proposals! And we are excited about the impact you could have in the African tech scene 😁.
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See you in ~50 mins!
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Our book club is done with Part 1 of DB Internals, and before we shift to Part 2, we're hosting a Q&A session @ifesdjeen (Author of DB Internals) for Part 1. If you'd like to join the conversation, join our Discord server: .
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