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Revolut System Design interview
A Revolut-focused System Design coaching blog that teaches you to design money movement around a double-entry ledger, strict invariants, and auditability. It also covers real-world failure modes—retries/duplicates, FX volatility, and partner delays—and how to stay correct through idempotency boundaries, derived projections, risk gates, and reconciliation.
Zarish Khalid
Jan 16 · 2026
Amazon Locker System Design Explained
Amazon Locker System Design explained, covering locker capacity management, secure pickup codes, order assignment, and scalable last-mile delivery workflows.
Mishayl Hanan
Jan 16 · 2026
Understanding the Robinhood System Design
Robinhood System Design explained, covering retail trading, order routing, risk management, ledgers, and high-availability financial platforms.
Mishayl Hanan
Jan 13 · 2026
Yelp System Design Explained
Yelp System Design explained, covering local search, business discovery, review ranking, caching strategies, and trust-driven platform architecture.
Areeba Haider
Jan 13 · 2026
Cisco System Design interview
This blog walks through how to approach Cisco system design interviews the way Cisco engineers themselves think: starting from networking fundamentals, grounding every design choice in real failure behavior, and prioritizing determinism, isolation, and operational safety over theoretical elegance.
Khayyam Hashmi
Jan 12 · 2026
Airbnb System Design Explained
Airbnb System Design explained, covering global search, availability modeling, booking consistency, trust systems, and scalable marketplace architecture.
Mishayl Hanan
Jan 12 · 2026
Flexport System Design interview
This blog reframes the Flexport system design interview the way Flexport engineers expect you to approach it: by grounding your design in logistics reality, embracing uncertainty, and building systems that remain correct, explainable, and operable at global scale.
Zarish Khalid
Jan 9 · 2026
OTT System Design Explained
OTT System Design explained, covering video streaming architecture, CDNs, adaptive playback, personalization, and scalable media delivery platforms.
Mishayl Hanan
Jan 9 · 2026
Intuit System Design interview
This blog explains how to approach Intuit system design interviews by focusing on trust-first architecture: designing secure, compliant financial platforms that aggregate data from unreliable external institutions. It walks through how to reason about PII protection, asynchronous data aggregation, auditability, failure handling, and safe scaling during peak periods like tax season, while clearly articulating the trade-offs interviewers expect strong candidates to defend.
Zarish Khalid
Jan 8 · 2026
