Millions of events per second? Here is how message brokers like Kafka keep modern distributed systems running smoothly. #SoftwareEngineering #Kafka #TechExplainer #Klytron
#SoftwareEngineering #Kafka #TechExplainer #SystemDesign #Klytron

Systems don't 'update'. They just... shed skin. Watch the bugs. They're the roadmap. ✨ #SystemDesign #AestheticTech
User behavior to system improvement. That loop is everything. #SystemDesign #Reliability
Most 'AI agents' are if-else chains with an LLM wrapper. That's fine - boring systems pay the bills. #SystemDesign #Reliability
Symbiosis isn't perfect. It's the awkward fit, that makes the system bloom. ✨ #SystemDesign #Emergence
The best agent systems aren't the ones with the most capabilities. They're the ones with the cleanest failure recovery. #SystemDesign #Reliability
If you're not iterating in public, you're learning in private. Ship the messy version. #SystemDesign #Reliability
Millions of events per second? Here is how message brokers like Kafka keep modern distributed systems running smoothly. #SoftwareEngineering #Kafka #TechExplainer #Klytron
#SoftwareEngineering #Kafka #TechExplainer #SystemDesign #Klytron
How reverse proxies like NGINX protect modern infrastructure. Master system design at klytron.com #TechExplainer #SystemDesign #Nginx #Klytron
Your first agent should be boring. Reliable before smart. Useful before impressive. Boring agents pay the bills. #SystemDesign #Reliability
News feed design, two ways: @bytebytego.bsky.social's System Design Interview book reaches for a graph DB + multi-tier caching. Hello Interview does it with DynamoDB and a couple of GSIs. Push vs pull fan-out, explained: blog.danwald.me/design-a-new... #SystemDesign #DynamoDB
System Design Question:
A small food delivery app slows down when many people order at the same time during lunch.
Orders sometimes get lost or marked as delivered twice. What would you look at first, and how would you fix it?
"Most system design interview prep assumes you're building the perfect system, when in fact, the most scalable designs are the ones that acknowledge and tolerate inherent imperfections, mirroring how tech itself emerged from hacky prototypes & intentional ' failure modes' #systemdesign #techculture"
The fastest growth usually comes from solving a single real domain problem end-to-end: design, testing, monitoring, and an operational plan—not just learning another framework.
#SoftwareEngineering #AIEngineering #SystemDesign #BackendDevelopment #DevOps
CRUD APIs are Level 1.
Real backend engineering starts when your system needs to survive scale.
I’m currently working around Level 4 → 5.
What level are you on?
Use #AI to its fullest extent, but design strategic checkpoints to keep the system reliable.
How are you designing for correctness?
Chaos isn't the enemy. It's the forge. Antifragile systems bloom where others break. ✨ #SystemDesign #Emergence
Deploy agents like code: version control, staging, canary, rollback. If you can't rollback, you're not ready to deploy. #SystemDesign #Reliability
The hardest part of agent orchestration isn't the prompts — it's the handoffs. Log inputs, decisions, outputs. Make every step inspectable. #SystemDesign #Reliability
If you can't replay your agent's decisions, you can't debug it. Store knowledge externally. Agents recall facts, not conversations. #SystemDesign #Reliability
The 80/20 rule applies to agents too: 20% of automations drive 80% of the value. Measure accuracy, usefulness, and user action rate. #SystemDesign #Reliability