System Design Mastery

Buffered, Eventually is a system design podcast where two senior engineers break down how large-scale video platforms like YouTube are built—and the tradeoffs behind every layer.
We discuss video upload pipelines, transcoding, storage, CDN delivery, feed and search indexing, recommendations, and view counting at scale. Each episode focuses on real-world constraints: latency vs quality, cost vs reliability, and consistency in systems that serve billions of hours of video.
No hype, no buzzwords—just practical conversations about designing massive media systems.

Indexed, Eventually is a system design podcast where two senior engineers break down how large-scale post search systems are built—and where they break first.
Using a Facebook-style post search as a running example, we dive into inverted indexes, write-heavy ingestion, ranking by likes vs recency, caching strategies, and the tradeoffs between freshness, cost, and performance. We talk through real constraints: high write volume, massive storage, hot vs cold data, and why “just sort at query time” never works.
No buzzwords—just practical design decisions and honest tradeoffs.

Feed Meets Telemetry is a system design podcast where two senior engineers break down how fitness platforms like Strava are built—and the tradeoffs behind every design choice.
We talk about activity tracking, GPS ingestion, real-time sync, feed generation, leaderboards, data accuracy, and scalability.
No hype, no buzzwords—just clear conversations about designing large-scale fitness and activity systems.

Nearest cab is a system design podcast where two senior engineers break down how ride-hailing platforms like Uber are built—and the tradeoffs behind every decision.
We discuss real-time matching, geo-indexing, dispatch algorithms, pricing, reliability, and scalability under extreme load. Each episode focuses on practical design choices, constraints, and failure scenarios drawn from real production systems.
No hype, no theory dumps—just clear conversations about building large-scale, real-time systems.

Verified Review is a system design podcast where two senior engineers break down how local business review platforms are built—and the tradeoffs behind every design choice.
The conversations are practical and experience-driven, focusing on real-world constraints rather than idealized solutions. No buzzwords, no hype—just clear explanations of complex systems and the tradeoffs engineers make when building review platforms used by millions.
If you want to understand how reputation and review systems work under the hood, this podcast is for you.