James Collerton·Jun 4, 2021How I Would Design… a URL Shortener!Demonstrating an approach to system design — Audience This article is aimed at engineers interested in looking at how another developer may approach system design. It is not at all a definitive method, more a way of generating an approximate first draft architecture. We will be borrowing the example problem from educative.io, …Architecture8 min readArchitecture8 min read
James Collerton·Jul 16, 2021How I Would Design… PasteBin!A System Design Demonstration — Audience This is another article aimed at engineers interested in looking at how another developer may approach system design. It is not at all a definitive method, more a way of generating an approximate first draft architecture. I would thoroughly recommend reading the initial article in this series here. It explores…Software Development6 min readSoftware Development6 min read
James Collerton·Aug 13, 2021How I would design… Instagram!A system design demonstration — Audience This article is the next in my series of how I would design popular applications. It is recommended (although not entirely necessary) to read the previous posts here and here. We will expect a basic familiarity with architecture principles and AWS, but hopefully this post is approachable for most engineers. Argument …AWS11 min readAWS11 min read
James Collerton·Sep 24, 2021How I would design… Dropbox!A system design demonstration — Audience This article is the next in my series of how I would design popular applications. It is recommended (although not entirely necessary) to read the previous posts here, here and here. …Software Engineering10 min readSoftware Engineering10 min read
James CollertoninInterviewNoodle·Oct 8, 2021How I Would Design… Facebook Messenger!A system design demonstration — Audience This article is the next in my series of how I would design popular applications. It is recommended (although not entirely necessary) to read the previous posts I’ve helpfully compiled in a list here. …AWS7 min readAWS7 min read
James CollertoninBetter Programming·Nov 5, 2021How I Would Design… YouTube or Netflix!A system design demonstration — Audience This article is the next in my series of how I would design popular applications. It is recommended (although not entirely necessary) to read the previous posts I’ve helpfully compiled in a list here. We will expect a basic familiarity with architecture principles and AWS, but hopefully, this post is…Programming8 min readProgramming8 min read
James Collerton·Nov 12, 2021How I Would Design… Suggested Search!A System Design Demonstration — Audience This article is the next in my series of how I would design popular applications. It is recommended (although not entirely necessary) to read the previous posts I’ve helpfully compiled in a list here. …Software Development7 min readSoftware Development7 min read
James Collerton·Nov 19, 2021How I Would Design… An API Rate Limiter!A system design demonstration — Audience This article is the next in my series of how I would design popular applications. It is recommended (although not entirely necessary) to read the previous posts I’ve helpfully compiled in a list here. …Software Development9 min readSoftware Development9 min read
James Collerton·Nov 27, 2021How I would design… a Web Crawler!A system design demonstration — Audience This article is the next in my series of how I would design popular applications. It is recommended (although not entirely necessary) to read the previous posts I’ve helpfully compiled in a list here. …Programming10 min readProgramming10 min read
James Collerton·Dec 6, 2021How I Would Design… Yelp or Nearby FriendsA System Design Demonstration — Audience This article is the next in my series of how I would design popular applications. It is recommended (although not entirely necessary) to read the previous posts I’ve helpfully compiled in a list here. …AWS10 min readAWS10 min read
James Collerton·Dec 11, 2021How I Would Design… Uber’s Backend!A System Design Demonstration — Audience This article is the next in my series of how I would design popular applications. It is recommended (although not entirely necessary) to read the previous posts I’ve helpfully compiled in a list here. …Software Development9 min readSoftware Development9 min read
James Collerton·Dec 17, 2021How I Would Design… TicketMaster!A System Design Demonstration — Audience This article is the next in my series of how I would design popular applications. It is recommended (although not entirely necessary) to read the previous posts I’ve helpfully compiled in a list here. We will expect a basic familiarity with architecture principles and AWS, but hopefully this post is…Software Development11 min readSoftware Development11 min read
James Collerton·Mar 11, 2022How I Would Design… A Search Engine!A System Design Demonstration — Audience This article is the next in my series of how I would design popular applications. It is recommended (although not entirely necessary) to read the previous posts I’ve helpfully compiled in a list here. …Software Engineering7 min readSoftware Engineering7 min read
