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Once upon a time, I spent hours reading books and engineering blogs.

But I forget things fast, and because of this, I couldn't put most ideas into practice.

Until one day, I started to write notes on the main ideas. It helped me become a better engineer than my past self.

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Now I have created a playbook to help you learn system design.

It'll give you:

  • Condensed notes to read for the system design interview

  • Key concepts to understand system design fundamentals

  • Important techniques from real-world engineering case studies

You can download the playbook for FREE by joining the newsletter:

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not sure this is working, un-subscribed, subscribed again, no emails 😔

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