Alex Zajac

Alex Zajac

Software Engineer II @Amazon Prev. Machine Learning @ Ecole Polytechnique System Design, WebDev and AI enthusiast

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🍔🧠 How Figma Handles 4M Users With Plain Postgres (No Redis Required)

🍔🧠 How Figma Handles 4M Users With Plain Postgres (No Redis Required)

PLUS: Database Indexing 101 📊, Scalable "Likes" System Design ❤️, Burnout Guide for Engineers 🔥

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 Netflix's 3-Tier Cache System That Powers 700M Hours Daily

🍔🧠 Netflix's 3-Tier Cache System That Powers 700M Hours Daily

PLUS: Caching Explained in 5 Minutes 🗝️, AI Agents Starter Kit 🧰, Time Management for Engineers ⏳

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 1 Embedding Model That Powers Airbnb's Entire Search System

🍔🧠 1 Embedding Model That Powers Airbnb's Entire Search System

PLUS: Awesome MCP Servers 🖥️, Google’s Dev Productivity Rules 📊, Amazon’s TikTok Bid 💰

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 Inside Apple Pay: The Secrets Behind 41 Million Daily Transactions

🍔🧠 Inside Apple Pay: The Secrets Behind 41 Million Daily Transactions

PLUS: 30 System Design Concepts 🧠, Simplifying MCP 📚, Visual Algorithms Cheat Sheet 📊

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 How AWS Lambda Serves Trillions on Requests a Month

🍔🧠 How AWS Lambda Serves Trillions on Requests a Month

PLUS: Instagram System Design 📸, How Cursor IDE Works 🖥️, Netflix's 140 Million Hours of Data Daily 📈

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 How DoorDash Replaced Elasticsearch for 50% Faster Searches

🍔🧠 How DoorDash Replaced Elasticsearch for 50% Faster Searches

PLUS: 15 Database Scaling Techniques 📊, Git Secrets for Engineers 🔑, Thinking Like a Staff Engineer 💡

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 How to Build a 2,000x Smaller Time Series Database in Rust

🍔🧠 How to Build a 2,000x Smaller Time Series Database in Rust

PLUS: SQL Interview Tips for Big Tech 💼, Stateful vs Stateless Architecture 🔄, Build Solid APIs with Next.js 🔧

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 How WorkMade Migrated 160K Lines of Javascript to Typescript in 6 Weeks

🍔🧠 How WorkMade Migrated 160K Lines of Javascript to Typescript in 6 Weeks

PLUS: How to Design Uber 🚗, WebSockets 101 🌲, Server Side Rendering Techniques ⚡

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 Bye Bye Passwords: How Grab Rebuilt Their Entire Auth System

🍔🧠 Bye Bye Passwords: How Grab Rebuilt Their Entire Auth System

PLUS: Top 10 Redis Use Cases 💾, 3 Tips for FAANG ⚡, Rust Parsing Simplified 🦀

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 RIP React; How Dagger Moved to Go + WebAssembly

🍔🧠 RIP React; How Dagger Moved to Go + WebAssembly

PLUS: Cameras in Airpods?! 🎧, Serverless 101 ⚡, Junion to Staff in 3 Years 🧓

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac