I've been a backend Engineer for 12+ years. Today, I'm a Principal Engineer at Atlassian.
I've designed systems that handle millions of requests. Sat on both sides of system design interviews.
Reviewed more architecture docs than I can count.
Starting today, I'm breaking down the fundamentals of scaling for the next 25 days.
If you're learning system design bookmark this thread, you're going to get a lot of learning from this.
“Unfortunately, there will be no evidence that you tried if you don't make it. In this world success is the only proof. Your struggles don’t count if there’s no result. So go get it.”
Just wrapped up a weekend project building llm-systems-and-evals, a full local pipeline for Mistral-7b on my Mac. No APIs, no cloud GPUs. Just pure inference plumbing.
I wired together an inference server, an eval harness, a load tester, and guardrails from scratch. 🧵