Systems Design & Architecture

Not textbook answers. The real frameworks that distinguish hired vs. rejected candidates at FAANG companies in 2025–2026 Continue reading on Stackademic »

A practical look at Domain-Driven Hexagonal Architecture — and why your future self will thank you for caring about this now. Continue reading on Medium »

The approach that matters more than the answer: clarifying questions, tradeoffs, and the mistakes most candidates make Continue reading on Medium »

(The Hidden Risk of Weak Tool Layer Reliability) Continue reading on Medium »

A Visual Journey From Browser Request to Global Streaming Continue reading on Medium »

A Visual Journey From Browser Request to Global Streaming Continue reading on Medium »

There’s a sentence that shows up in a lot of postmortems, and it goes something like: “the service was unavailable, which impacted… Continue reading on Medium »

It’s the kind of situation any senior engineer recognizes immediately: a product that grew too fast for the architecture it was built on. Continue reading on Me

Software design principles are not theoretical rules reserved for architecture documents. They shape the daily decisions that determine… Continue reading on Med

Most business owners think of collections as an art — a delicate dance of tone and timing driven by gut instinct. We treat it as… Continue reading on Medium »

Welcome to the exciting world of modern software engineering! If you are stepping into DevOps, Cloud Computing, or Software Architecture… Continue reading on Me

How modern applications deliver large datasets efficiently with better performance, smoother UX, and scalable API design  Continue reading on CodeX »

Most candidates start drawing boxes. Senior engineers start asking questions. That’s the whole difference. Continue reading on Stackademic »

Bringing powerful calculations to the web browser Continue reading on Medium »

Bringing powerful calculations to the web browser Continue reading on Medium »

Programming Language Continue reading on JIN System Architect »

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is a powerful programming paradigm that structures code by organizing it into objects, each of which… Continue reading on Medi

TypeScript’s type system is one of its greatest strengths. It helps developers catch errors early, ensuring that code behaves as expected… Continue reading on M

I’ll be honest — when Angular Signals were first announced, I rolled my eyes. Continue reading on Medium »

When working on distributed systems like microfrontend architectures with client-side composition — having multiple teams working… Continue reading on Medium »

Model offer eligibility, combinability, and pricing as a stateless decision service using DMN/DRL. Version rule sets like code, validate before release, and com

Platform engineering succeeds when reliability and ergonomics reinforce each other rather than compete. This article explores three foundational pillars: automa

Figma has published a detailed account of how it built an in-house Redis proxy service called FigCache, replacing a fragmented caching stack that had become a l

Random routing scatters requests, kills cache locality, and inflates tail latency in high-throughput systems. We fixed it using a clean two-layer deterministic

You drew WebSockets. You mentioned Kafka. You added Cassandra. The interviewer nodded. Then they asked one question — and your entire… Continue reading on Mediu

You are not struggling with Angular. You are struggling with how you use NgRx. Continue reading on Medium »

Your Angular code is not slow because of Angular. It is slow because of decisions you repeat every day. Continue reading on Medium »

Platform engineering has to be approached from a socio-technical perspective, and shaped by all stakeholders, not just developers, Sergiu Petean said in his tal

First of all the CQRS policy is implemented for large systems not for any small systems which have very limited number of users. Continue reading on Medium »

There’s a repeatable framework behind every great system design answer. Nobody teaches it. I’m showing it here. Continue reading on Engineering Playbook »

A real production failure, broken down layer by layer, and the system design decisions that could have prevented it Continue reading on Engineering Playbook »

90% of candidates answer the scaling question with “add more servers.” This guide covers the three-layer framework (compute, data… Continue reading on Level Up

System design consists of two types of designing — one is Low Level and another one is High Level, and both are very very important for… Continue reading on Med

A practical look at how resilient architectures isolate failing services, prevent cascading outages, and keep systems responsive under… Continue reading on Pyth

Molly Struve discusses a brutal six-day outage that nearly sank a company. She explains technical lessons like the importance of FMEAs, shadow traffic, and exer

When I started learning to code, my goal was simple: get things working. Continue reading on Medium »

I deleted 14,000 lines of code in one night. Continue reading on Medium »

Subtitle: Practical insights from real-world AWS systems, production incidents, and operational reliability in financial environments. Continue reading on Mediu

Server-Side Rendering makes your app load instantly. The View Transitions API makes it feel like a native mobile app. Here is how to… Continue reading on JavaSc

In 2026, the world of web development is growing faster than ever. With businesses shifting online, startups launching daily, and remote… Continue reading on Me

Boss: We need to design a system for realtime streaming of the IPL Finals. Continue reading on Medium »

In the modern Malaysian software landscape, we no longer build “apps” — we build distributed systems. As a senior Application Engineer, my… Continue reading on

Three rejections. Same mistake. One framework change. Here’s what Meta actually tests that nobody tells you. Continue reading on Stackademic »

They walked into the system design round knowing exactly what the interviewer was writing down. You probably don’t. Continue reading on Stackademic »

The fourth SOLID principle: small, focused interfaces over large, demanding ones. Continue reading on Dev Genius »

The complete guide to microservices architecture real trade-offs, migration patterns, communication strategies, and the brutal truth about… Continue reading on

System Design round where I confidently drew boxes on a whiteboard for 40 and never once did the math on whether any of it would actually… Continue reading on M

Why the best TypeScript engineers no longer stop at types — they design reliable runtime boundaries that keep real systems honest. Continue reading on Medium »