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Design systems that survive scale

173 deep-dives across system design, AI architecture, production post-mortems and end-to-end ML — written for engineers who ship, not for flashcards.

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Everything inside Scalable System

It started as system design. It is now 173 articles across six areas — plus a 91-concept roadmap that stays free.

Why engineers pay for this

Most material teaches vocabulary.
This one teaches judgement.

You can already find a definition of sharding in thirty seconds. What is hard to find is someone walking you through the moment it became the wrong call.

Written for decisions, not definitions

Every article argues a trade-off. You leave knowing why a team picked Kafka over SQS at that scale, not just what both are.

Interview-ready by structure

Each blueprint follows the same arc an interviewer expects — scope, estimate, design, deep dive, failure modes. Repetition builds the reflex.

Current with the AI stack

22 AI architecture deep-dives covering retrieval, agents, evals and inference cost. The questions being asked in 2026, not 2019.

Code you can actually run

ML problems ship with a full codebase you can read in the explorer and download — so the learning survives past the reading.

Free & structured

Two tracks. 91 concepts. Zero rupees.

System Design and Gen AI & Agentic AI — six phases each, ordered so every concept builds on the last. Track your progress as you go.

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🏗️ System Design
01Foundations
02Scalability
03Data & Storage
04APIs & Communication
05Async & Distributed
06Auth & Observability
🤖 Gen AI & Agentic AI
01Foundations
02Prompt Engineering
03Memory & Knowledge
04Agentic Systems
05Multi-Agent Patterns
06Production & Reliability
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Questions worth asking

Is this a subscription?

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What can I read without paying?

The entire 91-concept learning roadmap, 38 full articles and case studies, and the first 20% of every premium deep-dive — enough to judge the writing before you spend anything.

Does the library keep growing?

Yes. New premium deep-dives, AI architectures and war stories are added over time, and every one of them is included in the price you already paid.

Is this only for interview prep?

It works for interviews because it is written for the job. The blueprints follow the structure interviewers expect, and the war stories cover the part of the job that starts after you get hired.

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