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| | | | Alexandre Zajac, javinpaul, and Robert Reich posted new notes | |  | |  | | Alexandre Zajac liked |
| | | | Most engineering content is outdated after 6 months. Frameworks change. New cloud products overnight. "Best practice" blog posts age badly. But a handful of resources keep paying back for a decade. Here are 10 I still open in 2026: 0/ Designing Data-Intensive Applications ↳ Still the single best systems book ever written. 1/ Database Internals (Alex Petrov) ↳ The planner chapter alone is worth the cover price. 2/ Systems Performance (Brendan Gregg) ↳ USE method beats vibes debugging… | | |
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| | | | As a Senior Engineer with over 20+ years of experience, I can tell you quite certainly that if you're still getting rejections in system design interviews after good efforts, I think your fundamentals are not strong... Dedicate 4-8 weeks to mastering these design fundamentals, then practice designing few systems (instead of mock interviews). Scaling & Architecture ↬ CDN ↬ Caching ↬ Sharding ↬ Queueing ↬ Replication ↬ Partitioning ↬ API Gateway ↬ Rate Limiting ↬ CAP Theorem ↬ Microservices ↬ Load Balancing ↬ Fault Tolerance ↬ Database Scaling ↬ Service Discovery ↬ Consistency Models ↬ Eventual Consistency ↬ Distributed Transactions ↬ Monolith vs Microservices ↬ Leader Election Databases & Storage ↬ Leader-Follower… | | |
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