03 — Search Patterns

Patterns

A book-shaped table of contents for reusable engineering patterns spanning object-oriented design, enterprise architecture, distributed systems, messaging, APIs, cloud infrastructure, observability, security, concurrency, AI/agentic systems, and organizational design — grounded in production experience at scale.

02 — Caching Patterns

Cache-Aside, Read-Through, Write-Through, Write-Back, and Refresh-Ahead — the five ways an application and its cache can disagree about who owns writing to the source of truth.

01 — Database Design Patterns

Normalization, denormalization, sharding, partitioning, and archiving — the structural decisions that determine how a database scales and how expensive its queries stay.

Patterns

A book-shaped table of contents for reusable engineering patterns spanning object-oriented design, enterprise architecture, distributed systems, messaging, APIs, cloud infrastructure, observability, security, concurrency, AI/agentic systems, and organizational design — grounded in production experience at scale.

02 — Pattern Selection & Trade-offs

How to choose between competing patterns under real forces: naming the context, weighing trade-offs and consequences, composing multiple patterns together, and recognizing when a pattern has outlived its fit.