system design
📌 This Week's System Design Refresher Overview In this edition, we cover topics ranging from web crawler design and AI engineering to the building blocks of modern networking and network services powering modern connectivity. Featured topics: * 📺 Design a Web Crawler: FAANG interview challenge (YouTube) * 🚀 AI Engineering Cohort 2 starts
microservices
Monoliths vs. Microservices: A Decade of Shifting Perspectives Over the past decade, nearly every discussion on architectural evolution pointed toward microservices. Microservices became almost synonymous with modern architecture, while monolithic systems were often criticized as a “cancer” to be removed. In recent years, however, the industry has begun to reflect:
AI coding
AI-Assisted Java Backend Development — Workflow & Best Practices --- Business Scenario Back-end Java business code generation for a financial-grade system with accelerated iteration cycles. AI Solution Overview * System design analysis → * Core element extraction → * Task list generation → * AI tools with tailored prompts for end-to-end code generation. Tooling * CodeFuse IDE * CodeFuse IDEA
docker
📌 This Week’s System Design Refresher Here’s what we’ve covered this week: * Rate Limiter System Design: Token Bucket, Leaky Bucket, Scaling (Includes YouTube video) * Docker vs Kubernetes * Batch vs Stream Processing * Modular Monoliths * Process vs Thread * AI Agents: Chaining Tools, Memory, and Reasoning * Sponsor Us --- 🔹 Rate Limiter
automation risks
Key Takeaways * Automation can behave in counterintuitive ways during software incidents — sometimes impeding resolution or complicating human intervention. * Strict separation of tasks into “automation” vs. “human” can lead to designs that make incidents harder to resolve. * Overuse of automation can erode human knowledge, skills, and situational awareness. * Joint Cognitive Systems