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Inventory Management System Design
This blog explains inventory as an evolving lifecycle system, covering reservations, race conditions, multi-location complexity, and operational safeguards, while teaching how to communicate trade-offs clearly in a senior-level System Design interview.
Khayyam Hashmi
Feb 12 · 2026
Cloudflare System Design Interview
Prepare for the Cloudflare system design interview with this expert guide on CDN architecture, anycast networking, edge compute, caching, security, and global failover strategies.
Mishayl Hanan
Feb 12 · 2026
Lyft System Design
This blog coaches you through a Lyft-scale ride-sharing design as an interview conversation, covering phase-by-phase priorities (matching vs tracking vs payment), regional sharding and blast-radius control, state management with retries and idempotency, operational readiness with SLOs and graceful degradation, and capacity planning with realistic back-of-the-envelope assumptions.
Zarish Khalid
Feb 11 · 2026
GEICO System Design Interview
Prepare for the GEICO System Design interview with this expert guide covering quoting, claims, payments, architecture, scalability, and compliance-focused engineering.
Mishayl Hanan
Feb 11 · 2026
Goldman Sachs System Design interview
This blog walks through what Goldman Sachs interviewers actually evaluate, showing how to design and explain trading, market data, risk, and payment systems with realistic assumptions, end-to-end flows, and explicit handling of latency, consistency, compliance, and operational risk.
Zarish Khalid
Feb 10 · 2026
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
