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Articles tagged with System Design. Practical engineering insights for production systems.

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2026-05-05 6 min read

AI Agents That Write SQL: Patterns for Reliable Database Query Generation

AI agents that generate and execute SQL queries can automate analytics, debugging, and reporting. Learn the patterns for reliable query generation, schema grounding, and safe execution against production databases.

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2026-05-05 5 min read

Database Architecture for AI Agent Memory: Storing State, Conversations, and Knowledge at Scale

AI agents need memory—short-term context, long-term knowledge, and episodic recall. Learn how to architect databases that handle high-throughput reads/writes for agent memory systems.

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2026-04-24 6 min read

Multi-Agent Systems: Orchestration Patterns for Production AI Workflows

Multi-agent AI systems are replacing monolithic LLM pipelines. Learn the key orchestration patterns—supervisor, pipeline, blackboard, and market-based—and how to choose the right one for your product.

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2026-04-18 7 min read

Building Reliable AI Agents: Patterns for Failure Recovery, Observability, and Safe Autonomy

AI agents fail in new ways. Learn the reliability engineering patterns—idempotency, circuit breakers, human-in-the-loop, and agent observability—that make autonomous AI systems safe to run in production.

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2026-04-16 3 min read

System Design Blog That Actually Helps: Structure for Scalable APIs

System design blogs that rank and help readers: a practical structure for explaining scalable APIs, backends, databases, caching, and observability without hand-wavy advice.

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2026-04-16 7 min read

AI Product Architecture in 2026: The Reference Stack for Building Reliable AI Features

What does a production-ready AI product architecture actually look like in 2026? A practical reference stack covering model layer, retrieval, agent orchestration, eval, observability, and the human-in-the-loop tier.

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2026-04-14 3 min read

HealthTech Systems Design: Secure, Reliable, Audit-Ready Architecture

HealthTech systems design guide: secure data flows, reliability under partial failure, and observability that supports auditing and incident response.

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2026-04-14 4 min read

API Design Mistakes That Kill Scale (and How to Fix Them)

API Design & Architecture mistakes that break evolution: unclear contracts, missing failure modes, and performance-unaware endpoints. Fix it with production-grade design.

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2026-04-12 3 min read

Backend System Scaling Checklist: Find Bottlenecks and Stabilize Performance

Backend System Scaling checklist to stabilize APIs and data pipelines. Identify bottlenecks, fix query and caching issues, and implement measurable SLOs.

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2026-03-27 3 min read

Why Scaling Backend Systems is 90% Decision-Making, Not Code

Scaling systems isn’t just about infrastructure. It’s about the decisions, trade-offs, and mental models behind them.

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2026-03-25 3 min read

The Distributed Monolith: Why the Microservices Hype is Killing Early-Stage Velocity

Microservices aren't free. Learn how to identify if you've accidentally built a distributed monolith and why a modular monolith is the superior choice for growth.

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2026-03-20 4 min read

Scaling to 1 Million Users: A Practical Roadmap for Backend Engineers

There is no silver bullet for scaling. Learn the predictable progression of bottlenecks and how to solve them at each stage of growth.

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