https://antoniocortes.com/tags/patterns/Recent content in Patterns on Antonio Cortés (DrZippie)Hugoes-esSun, 01 Feb 2026 21:46:02 +0100https://antoniocortes.com/en/post/2025/sistemas-ordenacion-distribuida/Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://antoniocortes.com/en/post/2025/sistemas-ordenacion-distribuida/<h2 id="a-revelation-in-algorithm-form">A Revelation in Algorithm Form</h2> <p>Thanks to an article from <a href="https://www.systemdesignacademy.com/blog/design-a-system-for-sorting-large-datasets-distributed-sorting-at-scale">System Design Academy</a> that came my way this week, I&rsquo;ve been reflecting on something I find <strong>curious and simple</strong> at the same time: how to sort massive datasets in a distributed manner. And you know what? These patterns are so elegant that they can be applied to so many other problems we face day to day.</p> <p>As a developer who has gone from JavaScript to PHP, then Python, and is now fully immersed in Golang, I&rsquo;m struck by how certain patterns transcend languages and frameworks. Distributed sorting is one of those cases where <strong>architecture matters more than implementation</strong>.</p>