Arpit Bhayani

You teach System Design just to crack interviews. I teach System Design to spark engineering curiosity. We are not same bro. #AsliEngineering #SystemDesign

You are only as good as the last problem you solved. Solving one hard problem years ago and doing nothing since is just living in the past; you make a real impact by consistently tackling and solving harder problems that matter now.

ULIDs are great, but they are not the ultimate ID generation solution, in fact, no algorithm or approach is ideal. Remember, the only truth of computer science is that - you get some, you lose some. You will never find a data structure or algorithm that is not trading off…

Basically, we Indians can start and end any sentence with 'basically'.

Almost every domain in computer science is a rabbit hole in itself. I've chosen databases as the domain I'd love to dig deeper into, and that's why I keep sharing interesting insights about them. You should pick a domain that you have a genuine interest in and start exploring :)…

if this ever happens, I nominate myself to be the education minister ✋

Focus isn't found, it's protected.

Here's an interesting fact about Python Dictionaries... Python Dictionaries maintain the insertion order of the keys. This means when you iterate over the keys of the dictionary, you will always get them in the order in which they were inserted. They do this by maintaining an…

call me a noob or a pro, but windows >>>

Sunday mornings are nothing without turning a few pages of good science fiction.

I deleted Twitter from my phone, thinking I was wasting time and all that other crap. It's 1:34 a.m., and I just reinstalled Twitter. Looks like I'll be here perpetually.

DDIA is an easy read 🤯, and I could not have asked for a better outcome from my course. DDIA is one book everybody wants to read, but most find it difficult to comprehend. I always focus on building the right mental model and intuition, and go really in-depth into the concepts…

GitHub had a monolithic database handling 950,000 txn/sec 🤯 But this database became a pain as they scaled. So, a natural fix was to break this database into smaller ones, but this turned out to be more complex than they thought. I just published a video dissecting their…

AI will have zero impact on India's jobs, because this is full-time job for most 🤦