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Why Edge Cases Matter in Distributed Systems
Designing Data‑Intensive Applications – Reflections I’ve been reading Designing Data‑Intensive Applications, and it’s making me more aware of the assumptions w...
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Lessons Learned Building a Microservices Expense Tracker
Have you ever taken a small idea and deliberately made it more complex, not to overengineer it, but to understand how real systems actually work? That’s exactly...
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System Design 0-to-1: Vertical Scaling: Is Bigger Always Better? (Ep. 2)
The Initial Struggle In our last episodehttps://dev.to/hrishikesh_dalal_ced8f95e/system-design-0-to-1-how-whatsapp-scales-to-2-billion-users-ep-1-5d1j, we disc...
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Why Post-Hoc Moderation Fails in Real-Time Systems
The Assumption We Rarely Question Most moderation and risk‑control systems are built on a quiet assumption: harm accumulates over time. That assumption shaped...
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Monoliths for Discovery, Microservices for Optimization
I know, I know. It is another post about microservices versus monoliths. The debate feels exhausted at this point. Yet every time I start a new project, I find...
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I stopped using Excel: How I built an Enterprise-Grade Job Tracker with Spring Boot 3 & Angular 17
JobTrackPro – An Enterprise‑Grade Job‑Application Tracker Let’s be honest: searching for a job is a full‑time job in itself. 😩 Most of us rely on messy spread...
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Real-World System Design: Authentication, RBAC, and Multi-Tenant Architecture (Part 1)
Why This Series? Most tutorials show: - “Add JWT authentication” - “Protect a route” - “Create roles like admin and user” But real systems need answers to hard...
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I build things because silence is suspicious.
About Me Hi, I’m Arish. I write code mostly because my brain refuses to shut up unless I give it something to break. I’m a computer science student who’s into...
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Autocomplete / Type-ahead System for a Search Box - Part 2
System Design Interview: Autocomplete / Type‑ahead System Part 2 In Part 1 we covered the problem statement, requirements, and capacity estimation. In this par...
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I Intentionally Built a Bad Decision System (So You Don’t Have To)
A Tiny Benchmark that Exposes Silent Failure Modes in AI and ML Pipelines Most AI blog posts show best practices: clean architectures, neat abstractions, and i...
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How to Design a Rate Limiter in a System Design Interview?
How to Design a Rate Limiter in a System Design Interview? !How to Design a Rate Limiter in a System Design Interview?https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width...
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DoorDash System Design Interview Courses You Didn't Think You'd Need
My Journey with DoorDash System Design Interview Courses When I first tackled system design interviewshttps://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-desi...