Systems Design & Architecture

You left that interview thinking you did okay. The rejection email arrived four days later. No explanation, just “we have decided not to… Continue reading on Me

With the shift to Navigation 3, managing ViewModel lifetimes has evolved. Learn the intricacies of ViewModelStoreOwners and how to ensure… Continue reading on P

A deep dive into how Apache Flink works, why it exists, and learning it while building a real-time recommendation engine The post System Design Series: Apache F

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The Cisco 300-830 certification is an advanced-level exam designed for IT professionals who want to deepen their expertise in collaboration systems, particularl

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

Let me describe a scene. I’m willing to bet you’ve lived some version of it. Continue reading on Medium »

What algebraic topology reveals about cascading failures, hidden cycles, and the shape of system fragility. Continue reading on Stackademic »

A few schemes that don’t work and a novel scheme that does. Continue reading on Medium »

Your AI works in a notebook. It fails in production. System design is why. Continue reading on Medium »

The debate between Monolith vs Microservices is still ongoing in 2026. Continue reading on Medium »

I solved 847 LeetCode problems. I could design Twitter in my sleep. I failed 19 consecutive interviews. The reason had nothing to do with… Continue reading on S

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

One bad whiteboard session can cost you more than a year of raises — and most engineers don’t even realize it’s happening Continue reading on Stackademic »

In the realm of low-level system architecture and scalable software engineering, relying on a naive Binary Search Tree (BST) is a surefire… Continue reading on

Netflix saves $1 billion every single year with one infrastructure decision that most engineers have never heard of. Continue reading on Medium »

This article covers a few important tips to consider before choosing micro-frontends for your tech stack. I also cover what other tools fit well with it (AI) bu

I used to think I was doing okay in programming. Continue reading on Medium »

MVVM — Model-View-ViewModel — is a design pattern that separates your application into three distinct responsibilities. It was popularized… Continue reading on

For the first three days of the ticket, you barely write a line of code. You read the docs. You open files you don’t strictly need to open… Continue reading on

The smartest engineers often make things look simpler, not more complex. That can be hard to recognize until you’ve seen enough bad… Continue reading on Medium

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Recently, I interviewed for a Senior Java Developer role (7+ years) and encountered a mix of core Java, Spring, system design, and… Continue reading on Medium »

While Others Cracked LeetCode, I Built Real Systems — And Still Got Ignored Continue reading on Medium »

You hit send on WhatsApp. In under a second, your friend receives it. But between those two moments — something incredible happens. Your… Continue reading on Me

From alerts to approvals — how to turn Discord into a reliable control layer for production systems Continue reading on Medium »

The moment a service starts doing “just one more thing”, it quietly stops being reusable. Continue reading on Medium »

Your Document Search Is Not an AI Problem — It’s a System Design Problem Continue reading on Medium »

Resource Allocation Continue reading on Medium »

Concurrency and Thread safety Continue reading on Medium »

A Deep Dive into Cache Lines and Arena Allocators Continue reading on Medium »

There is a design decision that separates projections that recover from crashes automatically from ones that needs manual intervention. Continue reading on Medi

Go structs look simple — but under the hood, they play a huge role in performance, memory efficiency, and system design. Continue reading on Medium »

If you’re building a web application for a small or medium-sized business, you don’t need the most hyped stack — you need the most… Continue reading on Medium »

MPI jobs that run are easy. MPI jobs that run fast and efficiently — that’s where things get interesting. If your application scales poorly, takes longer than e

Complexity, scaling costs, and why many teams are quietly moving back to simpler systems Continue reading on Stackademic »

Two Languages That Both Want to Save You From Yourself Continue reading on Rustaceans »

Every engineer knows the feeling. You’re reviewing a pull request on a distributed cloud system, you spot something that makes you uneasy… Continue reading on M

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“Data dominates. (...) Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming” — Rob Pike Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

The advanced tools and real-world workflows developers use to build, ship, and scale systems without breaking everything Continue reading on Medium »

Five nines on paper. Three nines in production. The dependency chain that turned our reliability math into fiction. Continue reading on Stackademic »

I designed for millions of users. He asked about the one percent I completely ignored. Continue reading on Stackademic »

AI taught me what to say. It didn’t teach me how to think. Continue reading on Stackademic »

We assumed AWS meant bulletproof. October 20, 2025 taught us the $180K lesson about single regions. Continue reading on Stackademic »

What separates engineers who get $400K offers from those who don’t — it’s not what you think. Continue reading on Stackademic »

A practical Spring Boot blueprint for architecture, testing and production readiness Continue reading on Medium »

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