Archive - The System Design Newsletter

High Performance LLM Inference

#201: How to make LLM Inference Faster and More Efficient

12 hrs ago • Neo Kim

System Design Interview: Design Live Streaming System

#200: System Design Interview

Nov 6 • Neo Kim and Mandeep Singh Shekhawat

How LLM Inference Works

#199: The Secret to LLM’s Superpower

Nov 3 • Neo Kim

October 2026

How to Cut Your Claude Code Token Usage

#198: Part 5 - Claude Code 24/7

Oct 31 • Neo Kim and Gencay

Everyone is a scalability expert till traffic spikes

#197: Part 1 - Break into scalability

Oct 29 • Neo Kim

GitOps Deep Dive: How ArgoCD Works

#196: Part 5 - DevOps Mastermind

Oct 26 • Neo Kim and Ayaan

11 Networking Concepts Explained in 11 Minutes

#195: Part 2 - Break Into Computer Networking

Oct 23 • Neo Kim

The 80/20 of AI Concepts

#194: Part 3 - A Practical Guide to 14 Advanced AI Concepts

Oct 22 • Neo Kim

64 AI Engineering Concepts, Clearly Explained

#193: Part 2 - RLHF, Pretraining, Vector Search, and 14 others.

Oct 20 • Neo Kim

Networking - A Deep Dive

#192: Part 1 - Must Know Networking Concepts Explained

Oct 19 • Neo Kim

HTTP1 vs HTTP2 vs HTTP3

#191: Part 2 - 23 Concepts Every Engineer Must Know

Oct 17 • Neo Kim

HTTP1 vs HTTP2 vs HTTP3

#190: Part 1 - 23 Concepts Every Engineer Should Know

Oct 15 • Neo Kim

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