System Design Series' Articles

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May 11

LLD Foundations: What is System Design (and why it actually matters)

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May 12

LLD Foundations: Understanding Requirements (the step most people skip)

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May 13

LLD Foundations: Thinking in Systems (Abstraction + Design Flow)

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May 14

LLD Foundations: SOLID Principles (Part 1 — SRP & OCP)

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May 15

LLD Foundations: SOLID Principles (Part 2 — LSP, ISP, DIP)

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May 16

LLD Foundations: Coupling vs Cohesion (how to judge if your design is actually good)

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May 17

LLD Foundations: DRY, KISS, YAGNI (practical rules for everyday design)

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May 18

LLD Foundations: Trade-offs Thinking (how real design decisions are made)

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May 19

LLD Object-Oriented Design: Thinking in Objects, Not Code

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May 20

LLD Object-Oriented Design: Classes & Objects (Deep Understanding)

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May 21

LLD Object-Oriented Design: Encapsulation (Protecting State and Behavior)

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May 22

LLD Object-Oriented Design: Inheritance (When to Use It and When to Avoid It)

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May 23

LLD Object-Oriented Design: Polymorphism (Design Without if-else)

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May 24

LLD Object-Oriented Design: Composition vs Inheritance (Choosing the Right Relationship)

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May 25

LLD Object-Oriented Design: Interfaces & Abstract Classes (Designing Contracts)

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May 26

LLD Object-Oriented Design: Dependency Injection (Decoupling System Design)

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May 27

LLD Object-Oriented Design: Factories & Object Creation (Managing Complexity of Creation)

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May 28

LLD Object-Oriented Design: System Layers (Structuring Real Systems)

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May 29

LLD Object-Oriented Design: Cross-Cutting Concerns (Logging, Retry, Monitoring)

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May 30

LLD Object-Oriented Design: Design Mistakes That Break Systems (and How to Avoid Them)

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May 31

LLD Object-Oriented Design: From Requirements to Classes (Bridging Thinking to Domain Modeling)

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Jun 1

LLD Domain Modeling: Why Domain Models Exist (Beyond Classes and Objects)

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Jun 2

LLD Domain Modeling: Entities (Objects That Have Identity and Lifecycle)

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Jun 3

LLD Domain Modeling: Value Objects (Objects Defined by Meaning, Not Identity)

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Jun 4

LLD Domain Modeling: Business Rules & Invariants (The Rules Your System Must Never Break)

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Jul 16

LLD Domain Modeling: State Machines (Modeling Business Lifecycles)

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Jul 16

LLD Domain Modeling: Aggregates (How Real Systems Protect Consistency)

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Jul 16

LLD Domain Modeling: Services vs Entities (Separating Workflow from Business Logic)

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Jul 17

LLD Domain Modeling: Bounded Contexts (Why Large Systems Cannot Share One Model)

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Jul 17

LLD Domain Modeling: From Requirements to a Domain Model (How Real System Design Actually Happens)

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Jul 17

LLD Domain Modeling: Designing a Ride Sharing System (Applying Domain Modeling in a Real System)

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Jul 17

LLD Domain Modeling: Designing BookMyShow (Seat Consistency, Booking Flow & Aggregates)

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Jul 17

LLD Domain Modeling: Designing an Amazon Cart System (Mutable State, Checkout Flow & Order Consistency)

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Jul 18

LLD Domain Modeling: When NOT to Use Domain Modeling (Very Important Reality Check)

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Jul 18

LLD Domain Modeling: How to Debug Your Design When It Feels “Wrong”

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Jul 18

LLD Domain Modeling: How Real Systems Evolve Over Time (Versioning, Change & Refactoring Reality)

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Jul 18

LLD Domain Modeling: The Final Layer — Bringing It All Together (How Real Systems Are Actually Structured)

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Jul 18

LLD Domain Modeling: The Complete Mental Framework (How to Think in Any System Design Problem)

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Jul 18

LLD Domain Modeling: Final Anti-Pattern Guide (How Good Designs Slowly Turn Bad)

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Jul 18

LLD Domain Modeling: The Only Cheat Sheet You Actually Need (Interview + Real System Design)

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Jul 21

LLD UML & Visualization: Why Software Engineers Draw Before They Code

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Jul 21

LLD UML & Visualization: Class Diagrams — Modeling the Structure of Your System

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Jul 21

LLD UML & Visualization: Sequence Diagrams — Understanding How Objects Collaborate

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Jul 21

LLD UML & Visualization: Use Case Diagrams — Understanding What the System Should Do Before Designing It

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Jul 21

LLD UML & Visualization: State Diagrams — Modeling How Objects Evolve Over Time

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Jul 29

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why Software Engineers Think Differently About Data Structures

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Jul 29

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why Great Software Starts with Behaviours, Not Data Structures

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Jul 29

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why Modern Software Needs Fast Lookup Before Anything Else

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Jul 30

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: HashMap — The Mental Model Every Software Engineer Should Know

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Jul 30

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: How Does a HashMap Find the Right Location? Understanding Hashing Without the Math

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Jul 30

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Inside a HashMap — Buckets, Collisions and Why Everything Still Works

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Jul 30

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why HashMaps Feel So Fast — Understanding Performance Without Memorising Big-O

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Jul 30

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Real-World HashMaps — Sessions, Caches, Indexes and Design Trade-offs

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Aug 1

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why Some Problems Need the "Best" Result Instead of Any Result

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Aug 1

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Heap — A Data Structure Built for Continuous Decision Making

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Aug 1

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: The Heap Property — The Simple Rule That Makes Heaps Powerful

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Aug 1

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why Software Engineers Don't Sort Everything

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Aug 1

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Recognizing Heap Problems Before Writing Code

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Aug 1

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Heap Design Patterns — How Real-World Systems Continuously Choose the Next Best Thing

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Aug 3

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why Some Work Shouldn't Happen Immediately

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Aug 3

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Queue — A Data Structure Built for Asynchronous Work

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Aug 3

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why Queues Make Systems Faster (Without Making Code Faster)

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Aug 3

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Recognizing Queue Problems Before Writing Code

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Aug 3

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Queue Design Patterns — How Real-World Systems Handle Background Work

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Aug 3

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Common Queue Mistakes Every Software Engineer Should Avoid

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Aug 4

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why Some Problems Need You to Remember the Most Recent Action

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Aug 4

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Stack — Understanding Last In, First Out Through Design

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Aug 4

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why Stacks Make Undo, Rollback, and Navigation Feel Natural

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Aug 4

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Recognizing Stack Problems Before Writing Code

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Aug 4

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Stack Design Patterns — Where Last-In, First-Out Naturally Appears

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Aug 5

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why Some Problems Need Prefix Matching Instead of Exact Lookup

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Aug 5

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Trie — A Data Structure Designed for Prefix Search

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Aug 5

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why Tries Make Auto-Complete and Search Suggestions Feel Instant

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Aug 5

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: How to Recognize Trie Problems Before Writing Code

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Aug 5

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Trie Design Patterns — Where Prefix-Based Discovery Naturally Appears

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Aug 6

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why Some Problems Are About Relationships, Not Individual Objects

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Aug 6

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Graph — A Data Structure Designed Around Relationships

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Aug 6

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why Graphs Make Relationship Traversal Feel Natural

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Aug 6

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: How to Recognize Graph Problems Before Writing Code

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Aug 6

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Graph Design Patterns — Where Relationship-Based Modeling Naturally Appears

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Aug 7

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Choosing the Right Data Structure Starts With the Business Problem

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Aug 7

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why Great LLD Starts With Responsibilities, Not Data Structures

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Aug 7

LLD Data Structures in Design Context: The Biggest Lesson This Series Should Leave You With

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Aug 7

LLD Design Patterns: We Learned SOLID—So Why Are We Talking About Design Patterns Now?

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Aug 7

LLD Design Patterns: What Problems Does SOLID Actually Solve?

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Aug 7

LLD Design Patterns: The Problems SOLID Was Never Designed to Solve

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Aug 7

LLD Design Patterns: Why Copying Good Code Doesn't Produce Good Design

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Aug 7

LLD Design Patterns: What Design Patterns Really Are

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Aug 8

LLD Design Patterns: The Four Things Every Design Pattern Contains

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Aug 8

LLD Design Patterns: How Experienced Engineers Recognize Patterns Instead of Memorizing Them

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Aug 8

LLD Design Patterns: A Simple Roadmap to the 23 GoF Design Patterns

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Aug 8

LLD Design Patterns: How We'll Learn Design Patterns Throughout This Series

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