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Technical Design Doc Template: The 8 Sections I Write Without AI
How to write a technical design document: understand the task, weigh trade-offs, learn your company's stack, then fill an 8-section template, without AI.
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Wait for a Requirement Before Adding a Queue
A queue adds infrastructure to maintain and another cloud bill. Wait for a requirement to justify it.
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AI Agent Observability: Why Did One Easy Task Cost $1,000?
Debug AI agents with request logs, latency metrics and tool-call dashboards. Part 4 covers observability, model selection and systems design interviews.
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AI Systems Design Interview: Build an Agent Loop in 3 Steps
Prepare for an AI systems design interview: build a minimal chat app, add tool calling, then create a ReAct agent loop with clear stopping conditions.
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Trading System Design: APIs, Queues, and Workers
Part 2 separates a trading application into stateless APIs, queues, and workers. Austin explains why backtests and live trading need different resources,…
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Trading System Design: Scaling Backtests and Live Trading
Part 3 covers scaling heterogeneous backtest workloads and live trading. Austin discusses worker pools, shared market data in object storage, user…
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Trading System Design: Junior Engineer Architecture
Part 1 of Austin’s trading system design series starts with a single-process application. It covers persistent order intent, stable order IDs, an…
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3 Skills You Need to Get a Big Tech Software Engineering Job ($300K a Year)
The 3 skills that got me a $300K big tech software engineering job: AI-driven development, systems design, and solving LeetCode mediums in 20 minutes.
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System Design Interview: From 1 User to 1 Million. Eight Steps.
Eight system design interview steps that take one app from a single server to one million users: cache, replicas, a CDN, a queue, then shards.