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Gabriela Brown

Technical writer

Gabriella is a software engineer with experience working full stack for companies including Salesforce and Clegg. She has expertise in Rust and FHIR, and is also proficient in all areas of full-stack software engineering including React + Typescript, deployments with CI, GitOps, DataDog, and Azure infrastructure.

Latest articles by Gabriela Brown:

network protocols and proxies system design interview

Network protocols and proxies: system design interview concepts (1 of 9)

This guide defines network protocols and proxies, how they work, and when you should use them in a system. This is the 1st of 9 foundational system design interview concepts that we're covering on our blog.

load balancing system design interview

Engineering manager, Staff software engineer

Load balancing: system design interview concepts (4 of 9)

This guide defines load balancing, how it works, and when you should use it in a system. This is the 4th of 9 foundational system design interview concepts that we're covering on our blog.

Latency, throughput, and availability system design interview

Software engineer, Engineering manager

Latency, throughput, and availability: system design interview concepts (3 of 9)

This guide covers latency, throughput, and availability, and how to approach them in system design. This is the 3rd of 9 foundational system design interview concepts that we're covering on our blog.

Caching system design interview

Software engineer, Engineering manager

Caching: system design interview concepts (6 of 9)

This guide defines caching, how it works, and when you should use it in a system. This is the 6th of 9 foundational system design interview concepts that we're covering on our blog.

sharding system design interview

Software engineer, Engineering manager

Sharding: system design interview concepts (7 of 9)

This guide defines sharding, how it works, and when you should use it in a system. This is the 7th of 9 foundational system design interview concepts that we're covering on our blog.

messages subpub system design interview

Software engineer, Engineering manager

Queues and pub-sub: system design interview concepts (9 of 9)

This guide defines queues and pub-sub, how they work, and when you should use them in a system. This is the 9th of 9 foundational system design interview concepts that we're covering on our blog.

polling, streaming and sockets system design interview

Software engineer, Engineering manager

Polling, server sent events, and WebSockets: system design interview concepts (8 of 9)

This guide defines polling, server sent events, and WebSockets, how they work, and when you should use them in a system design interview.

Leader election system design interview

Software engineer, Engineering manager

Leader election: system design interview (5 of 9)

This guide defines leader election, how it works, and when you should use it in a system. This is the 5th of 9 foundational system design interview concepts that we're covering on our blog.