https://engholm.dev/tags/systemdesign/ Recent content in SystemDesign on NHE Hugo -- gohugo.io en <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0</a> Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:52:00 +0000 https://engholm.dev/posts/system-design/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:52:00 +0000 https://engholm.dev/posts/system-design/ I’ve spent as much time on the court as I have in front of a terminal, and it’s striking how often the principles overlap. Whether you&rsquo;re building a distributed system or coaching a team to the finals, the fundamentals of scale, latency, and reliability remain the same. Here is why your tech stack is more like a basketball team than you think: 1. Throughput vs. Latency (The Fast Break) In system design, we talk about Latency (how long one request takes) and Throughput (how many requests we can handle at once).