Articles by Tag #systemdesign
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System Design Roadmap for Beginners
System design sounds overwhelming. If you are an engineer who has decided to learn system design,...
Google's LEGO tribute 🧩
A single 2004 research paper quietly changed the internet forever A few...
The ONE Skill I'm Choosing Over LeetCode Grinding in 2025
It’s late 2025. and if your LinkedIn feed is anything like mine, it’s a chaotic mix of two...
The Art of Software Architecture: A Desi Developer's Guide to Building Systems That Actually Work
Yaar, we've all been there - sitting in those endless architecture review meetings where everyone's...
7 Lessons That Would’ve Saved Me Years as a Frontend Engineer
A few years ago, if you had asked me what system design was, I probably would’ve said something like...
Scared of System Design? Try This Tradeoff Quadrant
I’m a frontend engineer. And I still remember the first time someone asked me to “design a scalable...
Cron Jobs vs Real Task Schedulers: A Love Story
Hey folks. I know, I know, another long post. But if you've been following along, you know I only...
Why I built a Direct-To-Consumer SMS Marketing Platform By Myself (and why it's open source now)
The Problem: Small businesses need marketing automation, but most platforms are either prohibitively...
System Design Basics: Building Scalable Distributed Systems
This article is based on insights from Gaurav Sen's YouTube channel, specifically from my first day...
Designing a Zero-Trust Personal Information Manager with Client-Side Encryption
I am a B.Tech Computer Science undergraduate at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham who enjoys building...
From Repetitive Code to Clean Architecture: How the Decorator Pattern Simplified Activity Logging by 70%
We had activity logging across our entire application - typical audit trail stuff that tracks user...
Composition Over Inheritance: A Flexible Design Principle
Hi there! I'm Maneshwar. Currently, I’m building a private AI code review tool that runs on your LLM...
Session Tokens vs JWTs: The False Dichotomy
I've been building auth systems for a while now, and there's this debate that keeps coming up: JWTs...
Explaining the PACELC theorem to new hires
When I sit down with new engineers, we often start by discussing the CAP theorem (Consistency,...
The $20 AI Stack Fallacy (And Why It Breaks at Scale)
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of conversations comparing the monthly cost of vibe coding...
Production-Ready Rate Limiter in Go: From Side Project to Distributed System
A deep dive into three algorithms, atomic Redis operations, and building a high-performance,...
How I Built a Golang AI Gateway to Cut OpenAI Costs by 90%
The $50 Wake-Up Call Last week, I was building an AI chatbot. It was fun until I saw my OpenAI bill....
What 100+ Production Incidents Taught Me About System Design
I’ve responded to more production incidents than I care to count. Some were five-minute fixes. Others...
Daily DSA and System Design Journal - 12
🧠 Day 12 — Smallest Missing Integer & Schedule-Driven Jobs ⚙️ 🧩 DSA...
Week 6 from 40 – Making AI Features Feel Real
Reflection This week was about turning an “AI demo” into something that behaves like a...
Daily DSA and System Design Journal - 13
🧠 Day 13 — Bitmasking & Background Job Communication ⚙️ 🧩 DSA Problems [1...
What I’m trying to understand
I’m a software engineer, currently at a mid level. I started my career building web applications,...
Building RAG Systems: From Zero to Hero
What I learned building RAG systems from scratch—and how you can too The Journey That...
How to Design Backward Compatible APIs in .NET, Real Lessons and Tips from Production
Designing APIs for Backward Compatibility: Lessons from Production Backward compatibility...
The Tick Model
Tick Model (WIP) TL;DR This is an early-stage model for describing how systems evolve over...
🚀 The Hard Reality of Scaling AI Projects
Why Your Bottleneck Isn’t the Model (It’s Your Request Strategy) Over the last few months,...
Designing an Extensible Query API Using a DSL
Introduction While developing internal admin tools, one of the most frequent requests is...
Thundering Herds: The Scalability Killer
Imagine it’s 3:00 AM. Your pager goes off. The dashboard shows a 100% CPU spike on your primary...
How We Handle Concurrency Control in Financial Systems
The Problem: When Data Integrity Breaks Down It's the end of a busy financial period. Two...
Solving Latency and Pagination in Image and Keyword Based Property Search
At my company, we realized that users do not search for homes the way traditional search systems...