Skilled Coder

System Design Principles You Can’t Ignore in the AI Era

Why traditional system design principles matter more than ever

May 20 • Skilled Coder

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April 2026

AI Benchmarks Explained: What Every Score Actually Means

What Every Score Actually Means (And Why You Should Care)

Apr 12 • Skilled Coder

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March 2026

Backend Master Interview Preparation Sheet

Your one-page revision guide to crack backend interviews for DSA, System Design, LLD, and tech or leadership rounds.

Mar 16 • Skilled Coder

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9 Pieces of Dev Wisdom You Only Learn After Building Real Systems

Wisdom you will only gain once you are in production

Mar 5 • Skilled Coder

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February 2026

How Do You Design a System Where Most Writes Will Never Be Read?

The Art of Storing Data You’ll Probably Never Look At

Feb 18 • Skilled Coder

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January 2026

Signs You’re Thinking Like an Architect, Not Just a Developer

How seasoned engineers evolve from builders to visionaries

Jan 31 • Skilled Coder

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How Do You Design a System Where Reads Are Cheap But Writes Are Expensive?

The Art of Trading Write Complexity for Read Speed

Jan 13 • Skilled Coder

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Stop Using Kafka Everywhere

when message queues save your system and when they quietly make everything worse

Jan 6 • Skilled Coder

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December 2025

How to Handle 10,000 Concurrent Users

Every system eventually hits this moment.

Dec 29, 2025 • Skilled Coder

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How Would You Compute Trending Posts at Millions of Events per Second?

Computing "Trending Posts" Is Harder Than It Looks

Dec 22, 2025 • Skilled Coder

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How to Log 1M Events/Sec Without Slowing Down Your System

Why Logging Isn’t as Simple as It Looks

Dec 9, 2025 • Skilled Coder

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November 2025

Is DSA Still Worth It in the AI Era?

The Moment I Realized DSA Wasn’t the Goal

Nov 5, 2025 • Skilled Coder

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