Backend Study Group

"We shall build good ships here; at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always good ships"

Our Mission

We are a community of engineers and students dedicated to mastering the complexities of backend systems. Our sessions range from white-paper reviews to hands-on distributed systems implementation.

What We Study

Distributed Systems: Consensus algorithms like Raft.
Databases: LSM-trees and query optimization.
Networking: TCP/IP and HTTP/3 internals.
Performance: Profiling and eBPF magic.

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Recent Projects

Jan 2026

Distributed Key-Value Store

This project implements a distributed, linearizable key-value store.

Key Features

Raft Consensus: Built from scratch to handle leader election and …

Source Demo

System Backend

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Upcoming Events

Distributed Systems: The Raft Consensus Algorithm

January 15, 2026

A hands-on session on the Raft consensus algorithm. We’ll explore the paper and look at some production implementations.

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