Arjay McCandless

111K subscribers

Teaching you real software engineering and cloud development concepts used in big tech. Hey, I'm Arjay, a 24 year old engineer living in Austin, TX (ex-Amazon, now at an a16z backed Startup). Through sharing my knowledge about software and cloud development, I hope to help you guys avoid some of the pitfalls I've faced, and speed up your learning process of the most important topics. 馃摡 [email protected]

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How Many Users Can a $12 Server Handle?

Arjay McCandless 路 438K views 路 7 days ago

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Which Programming Language Can Handle the Most Users on a $12 Server?

Arjay McCandless 路 78K views 路 7 hours ago

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System Design was hard until I learned these 6 concepts

Arjay McCandless 路 16K views 路 4 months ago

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I let AI write all my code for 3 months (in production)

Arjay McCandless 路 35K views 路 1 month ago

13:42

Why ALL software becomes legacy

Arjay McCandless 路 40K views 路 12 days ago

14:10

My ENTIRE system design + development process

Arjay McCandless 路 32K views 路 5 months ago

12:10

everything you need to do to land a return offer. (for CS majors)

Arjay McCandless 路 4.5K views 路 4 months ago

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8 hour GitHub outage. A postmortem.

Arjay McCandless 路 22K views 路 1 month ago

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8,000 failures overnight. Postmortem.

Arjay McCandless 路 21K views 路 1 month ago

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If you want to understand AWS, watch this.

Arjay McCandless 路 15K views 路 2 months ago

8:48

EVERY system design skill you should learn, IN ORDER

Arjay McCandless 路 42K views 路 5 months ago

7:54

How to design any system

Arjay McCandless 路 13K views 路 9 months ago

1:23:17

ex-Director of Next.Js at Vercel, Director of Software at Clerk: Jeff Escalante

Arjay McCandless 路 2.3K views 路 3 months ago

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Agentic AI System Design (from the basics)

Arjay McCandless 路 11K views 路 5 months ago

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how to plan personal projects that will actually get you hired

Arjay McCandless 路 18K views 路 4 months ago

10:40

The ONLY math you need as a software engineer

Arjay McCandless 路 10K views 路 3 months ago

1:00:43

No Degree, No Problem. Becoming a SWE, raising funds, succeeding in SF with no degree | Sam Hall

Arjay McCandless 路 8.1K views 路 2 weeks ago

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i ranked every SWE role

Arjay McCandless 路 30K views 路 5 months ago

11:40

scaling your system (0 to 1M users)

Arjay McCandless 路 17K views 路 4 months ago

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