PinnedInStackademicbyRajdeep Deb·Aug 28, 2025How to Use LLMs in Real-World Engineering, and Why Small Language Models Are the Key to SuccessOver the past year, Large Language Models (LLMs) have moved from being an experimental curiosity to a genuine productivity enhancer for…
Rajdeep Deb·14h agoSix Years, Thousands of Kilometres: Road Trips by an EngineerWhat started as weekend escapes from Delhi turned into drives from Hyderabad to Leh and from Delhi to Assam and back.
Rajdeep Deb·Aug 9Migrated 16 Production Databases to a Different Cloud and Zero Code ChangeWe Moved 16 Production Databases to a Different Cloud and Changed Zero Lines of Application Code
Rajdeep Deb·Mar 11A Conversation From a System Design InterviewInterviews are rarely about just the right answer. They are about how you think, how you communicate, and how you navigate ambiguity.
Rajdeep Deb·Feb 28🎙 Founding Engineer Interview BreakdownBelow is a 30-minute “Founding Engineer Interview Breakdown — DevOps AI Edition” podcast script, elevated, explanatory, and structured for…A response icon1A response icon1
Rajdeep Deb·Feb 27“Can This Engineer Build a Trading Exchange?” A Founding Engineer Interview BreakdownOpening ContextA response icon1A response icon1
Rajdeep Deb·Sep 29, 2025How I Got Fed Up and Ended Up Building an AI AgentI still remember the excitement of unboxing a brand-new laptop at work. A shiny device, clean keyboard, fresh battery life — it always…
InStackademicbyRajdeep Deb·Sep 11, 2025From excitement to chaos: our team’s hard lesson in using Copilot.“Why don’t we just let Copilot generate the whole thing from the Figma designs?”
Rajdeep Deb·Jul 19, 2025BookMyShow Design: Manage seating layoutIn our previous discussion, we explored how to structure the seating layout for an event booking system. We identified different layouts…A response icon2A response icon2
Rajdeep Deb·Feb 27, 2025Backend System Design for an Event Booking PlatformThis is one of the first blogs in our series on designing an event booking platform. Let’s considering functional and non-functional…A response icon2A response icon2