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April 2026

Apr 18

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Designing a graph-based payroll engine

How we modeled interdependent salary components as a DAG and used Kahn's topological sort to parallelize calculation across 6,000 employees in 30 seconds.

#Go#Distributed Systems#Concurrency#Architecture 3 min read