Turned this into a blog.
The problem is not that junior work is bad. It is that it has no opinion in it. And opinions only come from decisions you actually made
https://t.co/iQ4CH8lhZ4
People pay lakhs to Colleges for a degree with almost no value.
and the same people won't even pay a few thousand to independent teachers who will put their heart and soul into teaching you a complex subject.
why expect teachers to always keep teaching you for free?
I'm a Principal engineer & I passed system design rounds of Amazon, Atlassian, Walmart, Saleforce, and Deliveroo.
Trust me, learning system is not hard. Start from these fundamental concepts:
1) Load Balancing: https://t.co/3jKCLiI6vl
2) CDN: https://t.co/dxzCmm9gAf
3) Caching: https://t.co/pRgn0FTPp2
4) Cache Invalidation: https://t.co/QrfRjJ57gd
5) Rate Limiting: https://t.co/LE5ECM2tGt
6) API Gateway: https://t.co/DgU8cBDUVr
7) CAP Theorem: https://t.co/a8WydnAIxd
8) Sharding: https://t.co/XQLU6eDriD
9) Replication: https://t.co/KuDkFH0fjx
10) Partitioning: https://t.co/3WXKeZLbLa
11) Queues: https://t.co/JchEoCcFmF
12) Microservices: https://t.co/aAQfM6AWMq
13) Microservices Vs Monoliths: https://t.co/bTaIIWkPU3
14) Fault Tolerance: https://t.co/qXNBoyOqYT
15) Database Scaling: https://t.co/D2lvPm1wkB
16) Service Discovery: https://t.co/z2DpwbJBVI
17) Consistency models: https://t.co/K2r3nMcCQu
18) Eventual Consistency: https://t.co/SWiz4ckIKR
19) Distributed Transactions: https://t.co/xqL7BTJxXn
20) Leader Election: https://t.co/ApNaYSnSFj
21) Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling: https://t.co/IFuEmzMfob
22) Back of the Envelope Estimation: https://t.co/7ntEmtVggQ
23) Idempotency, Data Latency & Finale: https://t.co/fNArLx4MrW
Let me know what you'd like me to cover, would love to help :)
we talk a lot about building consistent systems,But the best system I’ve optimized recently isn’t code—it’s getting back into sports. The raw discipline and consistency it demands anchors everything else. How you show up for the game is how you show up for your career and life.
I don't know how many of you are looking at the other side of AI. Not the models. Not the agents. The hardware underneath all of it.
This one caught my eye.
A German startup called SaxonQ just commercially launched a 512-qubit quantum computer. That runs at room temperature. Just a server rack and a normal wall outlet.
The chip is made from diamonds. Actual synthetic diamonds.
Here's why that matters for AI:
→ Current quantum computers need to operate near absolute zero. That's colder than outer space. It costs a fortune just to keep them running.
→ SaxonQ figured out how to use nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds to do the same thing at room temperature
→ Their systems claim 6x to 10x better energy efficiency than GPU clusters running the same workloads
→ They boosted diamond qubit production yield from 1-10% industry average to over 85% using a patented sulfur process
→ Compatible with Qiskit and OpenQASM. Meaning it plugs into existing AI workflows today.
Now here's where it gets interesting for AI labs specifically.
The two biggest problems in AI right now are cost and energy. Training and running large models is brutally expensive and power hungry.
If even a slice of that workload can be offloaded to quantum hardware at 6-10x better efficiency, the economics of building AI change.
SaxonQ has already deployed smaller systems at the German Aerospace Center and Fraunhofer IWU for real industrial work. This isn't vaporware.
SXQ128 ships in 3 months. SXQ512 in Q2 2027.
We talk a lot about which model is better. Not enough about what the next layer of hardware makes possible.
The chip race just got a new player. And it's made of diamonds.