I Built Tic-Tac-Toe the Old Way — Before Coding Agents
What I did. I recently built a multiplayer Tic-Tac-Toe backend in Go. At first, it sounds almost too simple to be worth writing about. It has a 3×3…
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LLD Design Patterns: How Experienced Engineers Recognize Patterns Instead of Memorizing Them
By now, we've reached an important milestone in this series. We've learned that: SOLID principles help us design maintainable components. Software k…
LLD Data Structures in Design Context: The Biggest Lesson This Series Should Leave You With
"If you remember only one thing from this series, let it be this: data structures are tools for expressing business behavior—not trophies to demonst…
LLD Data Structures in Design Context: How to Recognize Trie Problems Before Writing Code
"Experienced engineers don't recognize a Trie because someone mentions search. They recognize it because the business revolves around discovering va…
LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why Some Problems Need Prefix Matching Instead of Exact Lookup
"Not every software problem asks, 'Can you find this exact value?' Sometimes the real question is, 'What starts like this?'" So far in this series,…
LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Common Queue Mistakes Every Software Engineer Should Avoid
"A Queue is a powerful design tool—but only when it solves the right problem." Throughout this mini-series, we've learned: why some work shouldn't h…
LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Heap Design Patterns — How Real-World Systems Continuously Choose the Next Best Thing
"Once you understand the behavior a Heap solves, you'll start noticing it everywhere." In the previous article, we learned how to recognize Heap pro…
LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Real-World HashMaps — Sessions, Caches, Indexes and Design Trade-offs
"A HashMap is not valuable because it is fast. It is valuable because it makes the right things fast." In the previous articles, we built our unders…
LLD Domain Modeling: The Only Cheat Sheet You Actually Need (Interview + Real System Design)
After going through entities, invariants, state machines, aggregates, bounded contexts, and full systems like Ride Sharing, BookMyShow, and Amazon C…
LLD Domain Modeling: The Complete Mental Framework (How to Think in Any System Design Problem)
This is the final consolidation of everything in Domain Modeling. If you understand this structure deeply, you don’t need to memorize LLD patterns a…
LLD Domain Modeling: How Real Systems Evolve Over Time (Versioning, Change & Refactoring Reality)
One thing beginner LLD tutorials rarely show is this: real systems never stay in their “initial design”. They evolve constantly: new features get ad…
LLD Domain Modeling: When NOT to Use Domain Modeling (Very Important Reality Check)
Up to now, domain modeling may feel like the answer to everything: entities aggregates invariants bounded contexts state machines But strong enginee…