Writing on System design

Articles on System design from Tauseef Fayyaz: practical writing on engineering, AI and tech careers, drawn from leading a team and mentoring engineers.

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4 posts tagged “system design”

backend
Sixteen Things That Break a Backend, and What Prevents Each
Backend development best practices are mostly about failure: slow databases, duplicate requests, silent timeouts. Sixteen things that break a backend, grouped by where they bite, and the boring default that prevents each one.Aug 17, 202644
career growth
The Defaults I Would Learn First as a Software Engineer
Fourteen software engineering best practices written as defaults: prototype vague requirements, choose boring tools, wait for the third duplicate, write the failing test first, measure before optimising, ask after an hour.Jul 29, 202622
system design
Microservices Practices That Actually Keep Them Workable
Microservices best practices that matter once you genuinely need services, and the honest case for not splitting too early: business boundaries, data ownership, resilience, idempotency, events, tracing, contract tests and gradual deploys.Jul 29, 202625
system design
A Learning Roadmap for System Design
A system design roadmap that fixes the order: foundations, vocabulary, data, services talking to each other, then real systems. How long each stage takes, how to know you are done, and the free and paid resources worth using.Jul 8, 202648

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