What, Why & How?

In a world overflowing with tutorials and quick fixes, we often lose sight of the fundamentals. This blog is an attempt to cut through the noise and understand software engineering from first principles. By breaking down complex concepts into their simplest parts, we can develop a deeper, more intuitive understanding that transcends any specific technology or framework.

July 11, 2026

AI-Driven System Design: Customer Support Agent

July 10, 2026

AI-Driven System Design: Travel Assistant System

July 9, 2026

AI-Driven System Design: Personal Assistant Chatbot (ChatGPT)

July 8, 2026

AI-Driven System Design: Smart Compose (Gmail)

July 7, 2026

AI-Driven System Design: What is Semantic Search?

July 6, 2026

AI-Driven System Design: What is RAG Security?

July 5, 2026

AI-Driven System Design: What is Reflection Pattern?

July 4, 2026

AI-Driven System Design: Prompting Techniques

July 2, 2026

AI-Driven System Design: What is Large Language Model (LLM)?

July 1, 2026

AI-Driven System Design: Fundamentals

June 23, 2026

System Design: Data Warehouse (Snowflake)

June 22, 2026

System Design: Database (PostgreSQL)

June 21, 2026

System Design: Stock Exchange (Zerodha)

June 20, 2026

System Design: Distributed Job Scheduler (Airflow)

June 19, 2026

System Design: Ride Booking System (Uber)

June 18, 2026

System Design: Social Networking System (Instagram)

June 17, 2026

System Design: Video Streaming Platform (Youtube)

June 16, 2026

System Design: Hotel Reservation System (MakeMyTrip)

June 15, 2026

System Design: Payment System (Razorpay)

June 14, 2026

System Design: Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)

June 13, 2026

System Design: Containerization System (Docker)

June 12, 2026

System Design: Distributed Rate Limiter

June 11, 2026

System Design: What is Rate Limiting?

June 10, 2026

System Design: Distributed Cache (Redis)

June 9, 2026

System Design: Distributed Streaming Platform (Kafka)

June 8, 2026

System Design: What is Stream Processing?

June 7, 2026

System Design: Distributed Message Broker (RabbitMQ)

June 6, 2026

System Design: What is Asynchronous Messaging?

June 5, 2026

System Design: What is API Gateway?

June 4, 2026

System Design: What is Consistent Hashing?

June 3, 2026

System Design: What is Load Balancing?

June 1, 2026

System Design: Fundamentals

May 24, 2026

Low Level Design: Multi-threading and Concurrency

May 23, 2026

Level Level Design: Vending Machine System

May 21, 2026

Low Level Design: Elevator System

May 19, 2026

Low Level Design: Parking Lot System

May 17, 2026

Low Level Design: Attendance Management System

May 15, 2026

Low Level Design: Meeting Room Scheduler

May 13, 2026

Low Level Design: Tic-Tac-Toe Game

May 4, 2026

Low Level Design: LRU Cache

May 3, 2026

Low Level Design: Browser History

May 1, 2026

Low Level Design: Fundamentals

April 11, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Graphs): Number of Islands

April 1, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Dynamic Programming): House Robber

March 21, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Trees): Same Tree

March 12, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Backtracking): Combination Sum

March 11, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Backtracking): Subsets

March 10, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Linked List): Merge K Sorted Lists

March 2, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Linked List): Remove Duplicates from Sorted List

March 1, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Linked List): Detect Cycle

February 11, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Merge Intervals): Merge Intervals

February 7, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Sliding Window): Minimum Adjacent Swaps for K Consecutive Ones

February 5, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Sliding Window): Minimum Swaps to Group All 1s Together

February 2, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Sliding Window): Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters

February 1, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Sliding Window): Minimum Size Subarray Sum

January 17, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Prefix Sum): Subarray Sum Equals K

January 16, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (HashMap): Longest Consecutive Subsequence

January 15, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (HashMap): Two Sum

January 12, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Two Pointers): Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array

January 11, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Two Pointers): Find the Duplicate Number

January 10, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Two Pointers): Remove Elements

January 7, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Arrays & Strings): Maximum Subarray

January 6, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Arrays & Strings): Next Permutation

January 5, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Arrays & Strings): Best Time to Buy & Sell Stock

January 4, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Arrays & Strings): Majority Element

January 3, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Arrays & Strings): Rotate Array

January 2, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Arrays & Strings): Single Number

January 1, 2026

Data Structures & Algorithms (Arrays & Strings): Missing Number