5 entries tagged "systems design" — 5 posts, 0 links.
Apr 1, 2026 — 19 min — Platform & AI
A practical reading path through software design, architecture, system design interviews, data-intensive applications, and systems analysis for engineers who want to grow beyond implementation.
Outcome: Reviewed the architecture and system design books from the DEV Community list, corrected the list count, summarized each book, and arranged them into a practical learning path.
Mar 8, 2026 — 7 min — Systems Notes
A data platform failure pattern where tool replacement looked like the fix, but the real problem was ownership, release discipline, metric mismatch, and governance outside the workflow.
Outcome: Reframed platform recovery around ownership contracts, operating metrics, and release discipline so teams could fix the system instead of replacing another tool.
Feb 24, 2026 — 20 min — Platform & AI
A practical map from algorithmic complexity to software engineering, data pipelines, machine learning systems, and modern LLM architecture decisions.
Outcome: Connected classical algorithm analysis to production software, ML pipelines, RAG systems, model serving, and the trade-offs behind modern AI research.
Feb 8, 2026 — 15 min — Systems Notes
A practical view of product planning through Shape Up, user flow, business logic, mockups, architecture, discovery, timelines, and technical debt.
Outcome: Clarified product planning as the work of shaping user flow, business rules, implementation boundaries, discovery evidence, and technical constraints before committing delivery capacity.
Sep 21, 2025 — 14 min — Platform & AI
A practical way to use algorithm complexity in product engineering, from choosing data structures to designing recommendation features that do not collapse as data grows.
Outcome: Explained how algorithm complexity shows up in everyday product work, then walked through an e-commerce recommendation feature from naive loops to indexed lookup.