Beauty and the Mess - “Performance of the system depends on how the parts fit, not how they act taken separately.”

Systems Design Fundamentals and Solutions to Interview Questions

a distributed sql database system; written in rust

My Notes but Resources For You

Member-submitted solutions to coding problems

Dapr event-driven reference application

Official Github Repository for Neo-Cybernetics, a discipline that introduces a holistic paradigm for understanding the driving forces and flows of systems, be they natural, technological or sociocultural.

How to structure a system design interview

Examples of applying pessimistic and optimistic concurrency control with AWS DynamoDB.

Interview prep material

I put this together to help me manage and automate my mscloud raining development projects

A centralized system for managing ambulance services across multiple hospitals, utilizing data structures to optimize ambulance allocation and improve emergency response times.

A simple template for local architecture diagramming and documentation with structurizr

A system analysis and design project majoring in records keeping.

An interactive tool that compares fields and definitions across services to detect hidden semantic drift before it breaks integrations.

A tiny tool to validate loyalty earn, redeem, and tier-update events against a simple event contract.

A tiny interactive sandbox for exploring how an agent interprets tasks, applies rules, and changes behavior as signals drift.

A series of small, high-signal analyses showing how real-world products handle system boundaries, meaning, drift, governance, and AI alignment—and where improvements could stabilize behavior.

Public research notes, essays, and lightweight prototypes exploring the Recursive Identity Architecture (RIA): recursion, coherence, authorship, and non-collapsing decision systems.

A collection of case studies and system specifications demonstrating advanced skills in system design, quality assurance, and technical problem-solving.