TLDR🔥
System Design is basically the blueprint of a system you want to build . It is the process of defining architecture , components and the interface of a system to meet some specific requirements. System Design is one of the hot topics in the software development industry and is widely asked in tech interviews and learning this skill will guarantee you a salary hike .
In this article I will share about top 10 System design engineering blogs which will help you to become a system design master for free
Byte Byte Go Blog
Byte Byte Go is an edtech startup focusing on providing training and courses on system design topics to help you ace your system design interviews like a pro. Byte Byte go can be considered as one of the best schools to learn and master system design skills.
They have broken down complex system design topics using interactive animation videos, mind maps , cheat sheets and many more which will help you master system design like a piece of cake. Weather you are new to system design or you want to stay updated with current industry standards Byte Byte Go is a must checkout for you
Google Research
Google is one of the most popular and efficient search engines in the world. They are handling billions of users and requests every day on their platform. Google products like Angular , flutter, Android, Google Cloud, Firebase are some of the key technologies which almost every developer uses . The Google research platform has wide range of topics on software development including machine learning , software systems, hardware and architectures, distributed and parallel systems and this platform is a hidden gem for software developers to learn and research on various topics
Dropbox Tech Blog
Dropbox is an american tech company which provides storage solutions and other software products for various use cases. They also handle millions of requests everyday followed by managing and scaling large software infrastructure. Here you can explore various topics like infrastructure, frontend development ,security, mobile app development etc. If you are planning to build something similar like dropbox or a online storage service must bookmark this blog
The Netflix Tech Blog
Netflix is one of the most popular and successful Ott giants over the world resulting in handling millions of users and requests every day. You can follow Netflix engineering blogs for a wide range of topics from video streaming, microservices to machine learning and artificial intelligence. If you are someone working in the Ott industry or planning to build something on top of video streaming technology you must have an eye on the Netflix Tech blog for reference.
Uber Engineering Blog
Uber is one of the most popular and hopefully the largest online cab service providers in the world. Uber is also operating in the online food delivery sector. The reason behind I am putting Uber engineering blog in this list is because you will find some of the most crucial topics within their blog like using maps and locations to deliver services. Working with geo location data is one of the most crucial topics in software engineering and the most common industrial sectors like ecommerce and logistics are very much dependent on this information so that they can deliver their product or service as fast as possible. If you are someone in the software industry working on Geo location or navigation technology or planning to build something using these technologies then Uber Engineering blog is a must check out for you
Meta Engineering blog
Meta (formerly Facebook) is the biggest social media giant in the world and also the founder and maintainer of the most popular javascript library for building user interfaces i.e React.js. Other than that almost all popular social media apps including facebook, instagram, whatsapp, threads and a lot more are owned by them. The meta engineering blog contains a wide range of software engineering topics like web and mobile development, infrastructure systems, video technology , AR and VR technology etc. I would recommend you to keep an eye on Meta Engineering blog specially if you are building something using react or AR VR tech
Stripe Engineering blog
Stripe is one the most popular companies providing payments related solutions. Most of the online businesses and ecommerce websites use stripe for handling payments , subscriptions and invoicing even I also use stripe to access payments from my clients. Stripe Engineering blog covers a wide range of topics which you can explore like use of Machine Learning for fraud detection, UI and UX related topics for responsive and interactive payment interfaces, application security and lot more. So if you are someone who is working on payments or planning to build something related to handling payments you must definitely check out Stripe Engineering Blog as a reference.
Amazon Engineering Blog
Amazon Engineering Blog
Amazon is the largest e-commerce giant in the world not other than that it also owns Amazon Web Services (largest cloud service provider),Amazon Prime (One of the most popular ott giant ) , The audio stories platform audible the amazon music and many more. The Amazon Engineering blog covers a wide range of topics including Containers and Kubernetes, Cloud patterns and architectures, Machine learning and Amazon Artificial Intelligence technologies solve complex business challenges. So if you are someone planning to build your next app using AWS or integrate amazon technologies like Alexa then Amazon engineering blog is a must checkout for you.
Microsoft Dev Blog
Microsoft is one of the most popular tech giants in america owing the most used operating system Windows , the dot net framework for build blazingly fast enterprise applications, The Bing search engine, the copilot(One of the most efficient AI tools for productivity), the largest code sharing , hosting and version controlling platform GitHub, the Azure cloud platform (one of the largest cloud service providers). The Microsoft engineering blog contains a wide range of topics and tutorials also including Windows , azure , machine learning and artificial intelligence, the dot net framework. If you are someone planning to build your next app or software using the Microsoft technologies then you must have an eye on it
Apple Developer News
Apple is the one of the largest tech giants in the world and also owns the the most popular Mac OS and IOS (iPhone Operating System). MacBooks and iphones have a very large user base so most of the startups and enterprises build products for Mac and IOS users also. The Apple developer news mostly contains topics related to IOS , Swift (The only language to build native IOS and Mac OS apps), swift UI (The Apple UI) and somewhat on topics like C++ , Kubernetes etc. If you are someone who is planning to build a software for iOS or mac os users the developer news is a must for your reference.
Conclusion
In this article I discussed about 10 engineering blogs you must checkout to boost up your system design skills. It’s good if you are having an eye on every single blog but I would suggest that you must checkout only those blogs based on the stack you will be using or the type of industry you are dealing with
Top comments (7)
Airbnb blogs are also good though
Nice collection
Also aws.amazon.com/builders-library/
Thanks for the resource
Cool.
Thanks for the compliment
Thanks for sharing.