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Matt Frank

Mar 25

Designing LeetCode: Online Code Judge System

#onlinejudge #leetcode #codeexecution #sandbox

6 min read

Matt Frank

Mar 24

Building Your Personal Brand as a Developer

#personalbrand #developermarketing #visibility

7 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 23

Vector Databases Explained: Pinecone, Weaviate, and Milvus

#vectordatabase #embeddings #similaritysearch

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7 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 22

Cloud Networking Fundamentals: VPCs, Subnets, and Gateways

#cloudnetworking #vpc #subnets

6 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 21

Container Orchestration: Kubernetes vs ECS vs Docker Swarm

#containerorchestration #kubernetes #ecs

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7 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 20

Design Google Drive: Interview Walkthrough

#filestorage #googledrive #interviewquestion

6 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 19

Hexagonal Architecture: Ports and Adapters Pattern

#hexagonalarchitecture #portsadapters #cleancode

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6 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 17

Preparing for Performance Reviews: Engineer's Guide

#performancereview #careergrowth #feedback

6 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 16

Computer Vision in Production: Object Detection and Beyond

#computervision #objectdetection #cvproduction

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6 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 15

AWS Secrets Manager: Secure Credential Management

#secretsmanager #security #credentials

6 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 13

Coding Interview Patterns: The 15 Essential Patterns

#codinginterview #patterns #algorithms

7 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 12

Idempotency in APIs: Designing Safe Retry Logic

#idempotency #apidesign #reliability

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6 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 11

Designing Search Autocomplete: Trie Data Structures at Scale

#autocomplete #trie #search #typeahead

6 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 10

Public Speaking for Engineers: Conferences and Meetups

#publicspeaking #conferences #presentations

7 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 9

AWS SageMaker: End-to-End ML Platform

#sagemaker #awsml #machinelearningplatform

8 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 8

AWS ECS and Fargate: Container Orchestration Guide

#awsecs #fargate #containers

7 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 7

Platform Engineering: Building Internal Developer Platforms

#platformengineering #internalplatform #devrel

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8 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 6

Design DoorDash: Interview Walkthrough

#fooddelivery #doordash #interviewquestion

10 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 5

Database Sharding: Horizontal Scaling Strategies

#sharding #databasescaling #horizontalscaling

6 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 4

Designing a Code Deployment System: GitHub Actions Architecture

#deployment #cicd #githubactions #pipeline

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8 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 3

Owning Your Mistakes: Growth Through Accountability

#accountability #mistakes #growthmindset

7 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 2

RAG Architecture: Building AI with Your Own Data

#rag #retrievalaugmentedgeneration #llm

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6 min read

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Matt Frank

Mar 1

Serverless Cold Starts: Understanding and Mitigating

#coldstart #serverless #lambdaperformance

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6 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 28

OpenTelemetry: Unified Observability for Modern Apps

#opentelemetry #observability #tracing

6 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 27

Meta Interview Guide: What to Expect and How to Prepare

#metainterview #facebook #faang

5 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 26

Serverless Architecture: When and How to Go Serverless

#serverless #lambda #faas #cloud

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6 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 25

Designing Medium: Blogging Platform Architecture

#blogging #medium #contentplatform #cms

7 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 24

What Does a Staff Engineer Actually Do?

#staffengineer #careerladder #technicalleadership

6 min read

Cover image for Model Serving Infrastructure: Building Scalable Inference

Matt Frank

Feb 23

Model Serving Infrastructure: Building Scalable Inference

#modelserving #inference #mlops

7 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 22

GCP Cloud Run: Serverless Containers Made Simple

#cloudrun #gcp #serverlesscontainers

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6 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 21

Kubernetes Autoscaling: HPA, VPA, and Cluster Autoscaler

#kubernetesautoscaling #hpa #scaling

6 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 20

Design a Monitoring System: Interview Walkthrough

#monitoringsystem #interviewquestion #observability

7 min read

Cover image for Async API Design: Handling Long-Running Operations

Matt Frank

Feb 19

Async API Design: Handling Long-Running Operations

#asyncapi #longrunningoperations #webhooks

6 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 18

Designing an Airline Reservation System

#airlinereservation #bookingsystem #inventory

7 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 17

Becoming a Tech Lead: Technical and People Skills

#techlead #leadership #teammanagement

7 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 16

Feature Stores: Managing ML Features at Scale

#featurestore #mlfeatures #mlops

7 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 15

Serverless Framework: Multi-Cloud Deployment

#serverlessframework #deployment #serverless

6 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 14

Deployment Rollback Strategies: When Things Go Wrong

#rollback #deployment #disasterrecovery

7 min read

Cover image for Back-of-Envelope Estimation: Numbers Every Engineer Should Know

Matt Frank

Feb 13

Back-of-Envelope Estimation: Numbers Every Engineer Should Know

#estimation #systemdesign #capacityplanning

7 min read

Cover image for Bulkhead Pattern: Isolating Failures in Distributed Systems

Matt Frank

Feb 12

Bulkhead Pattern: Isolating Failures in Distributed Systems

#bulkheadpattern #isolation #faulttolerance

6 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 11

Designing a Stock Exchange: Order Matching Engine

#stockexchange #trading #ordermatching #lowlatency

7 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 9

Time Series Forecasting: Traditional and ML Approaches

#timeseries #forecasting #prediction

7 min read

Cover image for Vector Databases Explained: Architecture and System Design for AI Apps

Matt Frank

Feb 9

Vector Databases Explained: Architecture and System Design for AI Apps

#vectordatabase #ai #rag #systemdesign

6 min read

Cover image for Building Multi-Agent AI Systems: Architecture Patterns and Best Practices

Matt Frank

Feb 9

Building Multi-Agent AI Systems: Architecture Patterns and Best Practices

#ai #agents #llm #architecture

7 min read

Cover image for How Netflix, Uber, and Google Build AI Systems: Architecture Deep Dive

Matt Frank

Feb 9

How Netflix, Uber, and Google Build AI Systems: Architecture Deep Dive

#ai #systemdesign #machinelearning #architecture

7 min read

Cover image for How to Design LLM Applications for Production: A System Design Guide

Matt Frank

Feb 9

How to Design LLM Applications for Production: A System Design Guide

#llm #ai #systemdesign #architecture

6 min read

Cover image for 6 Machine Learning System Design Patterns Every Engineer Should Know

Matt Frank

Feb 9

6 Machine Learning System Design Patterns Every Engineer Should Know

#machinelearning #systemdesign #ai #architecture

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6 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 8

AWS ElastiCache: Redis and Memcached in the Cloud

#elasticache #redis #caching #aws

6 min read

Cover image for Chaos Engineering: Testing System Resilience

Matt Frank

Feb 7

Chaos Engineering: Testing System Resilience

#chaosengineering #resilience #testing

7 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 6

API Design Interview Questions: REST and Beyond

#apidesign #interviewquestion #restapi

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7 min read

Cover image for Modular Monolith: The Best of Both Worlds

Matt Frank

Feb 5

Modular Monolith: The Best of Both Worlds

#modularmonolith #architecture #monolith

6 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 4

Designing an Authentication System: OAuth and SSO

#authentication #oauth #sso #security

8 min read

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Matt Frank

Feb 4

Designing TikTok: Short Video Platform Architecture

#tiktok #shortvideo #socialmedia #recommendations

10 min read

Cover image for What is System Design? A Complete Beginner's Guide

Matt Frank

Feb 4

What is System Design? A Complete Beginner's Guide

#systemdesign #beginners #fundamentals

3 min read

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Matt Frank

Jan 28

Design System Architectures in Minutes with AI

#webdev #ai #programming #productivity

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2 min read

Matt Frank

Dec 4 '25

Design System Architectures in Minutes with AI

#webdev #ai #programming #productivity

1 min read

Matt Frank

Dec 4 '25

Design System Architectures in Minutes with AI

#webdev #ai #programming #productivity

1 min read

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