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System Design

System design stories and patterns focused on latency, scalability, and reliability, with concrete examples from booking engines, in-memory indexing, and Elixir/BEAM architectures.

How I Ended Up Pricing Boats With Bitmaps And ETS
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How I Ended Up Pricing Boats With Bitmaps And ETS

I wanted a booking search that felt instant, not “wait while I join five tables and cry”, so I ended up encoding availability and prices into tiny bitmaps and shoving them into ETS. Here’s how and why that works.

#Elixir #Performance Optimization