Gaurav Sen System Design ((exclusive))

If you want to think like a principal engineer, embed these Gaurav Sen-inspired principles into your daily engineering practice:

Pick a real-world system you use daily. Try to draft its high-level architecture on a whiteboard using Sen's framework, explicitly calling out potential bottlenecks and how to fix them. gaurav sen system design

His "breaking down" style is now legendary. He doesn’t just draw boxes and arrows. He starts with a requirement, hits a bottleneck (a database crash, a slow query, a single point of failure), and then asks the audience: “What do we do now?” If you want to think like a principal