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Search Engine System Design Explained
Search Engine System Design explained step by step, covering crawling, indexing, ranking, query serving, scalability, and performance trade-offs for interviews.
Mishayl Hanan
Feb 10 · 2026
Ride Sharing App System Design
This blog walks through the ride-sharing lifecycle from an interviewer’s perspective, explaining how to handle live location updates, matching trade-offs, failure scenarios, retries, demand spikes, and payments while clearly communicating design decisions under interview pressure.
Zarish Khalid
Feb 9 · 2026
The Strava System Design Explained
Strava System Design explained end-to-end, covering activity ingestion, GPS data processing, social feeds, leaderboards, privacy, and scalability trade-offs.
Mishayl Hanan
Feb 9 · 2026
Hotel Booking System Design
This blog walks through a hotel booking system from an interviewer’s perspective, showing how to model multi-night availability, handle retries and partial failures, reason about pricing and cancellations, and clearly communicate trade-offs while adapting the design under interview pressure.
Khayyam Hashmi
Feb 6 · 2026
BookMyShow System Design
This blog walks through BookMyShow from a System Design interviewer’s perspective, teaching how to narrate the end-to-end booking flow, model seat availability as a state machine, handle retries and payment failures safely, and defend consistency-over-availability trade-offs while explaining decisions clearly under interview pressure.
Zarish Khalid
Feb 6 · 2026
What is the OpenAI System Design
OpenAI System Design explained, covering AI inference orchestration, GPU scheduling, safety pipelines, scalability, latency optimization, and cost trade-offs.
Mishayl Hanan
Feb 6 · 2026
What is the Zoom System Design
Zoom System Design explained in depth, covering real-time audio/video streaming, signaling, scalability, latency optimization, reliability, and interview-ready trade-offs.
Areeba Haider
Feb 4 · 2026
ML System Design Explained
ML System Design explained, covering data pipelines, feature stores, model training, serving, monitoring, scalability, and production trade-offs.
Mishayl Hanan
Feb 3 · 2026
E-Commerce System Design
A practical interview blog that breaks down core services and data consistency, walks through checkout end-to-end, covers key failure scenarios, and explains how to handle flash sales and measure system health.
Zarish Khalid
Feb 2 · 2026
