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System Design with AI Interview Guide : Designing Scalable, Agentic, and Defensible Systems
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System Design with AI Interview Guide : Designing Scalable, Agentic, and Defensible Systems

by Rohit Bhardwaj
September 2026
777 pages
19h 6m
English
Apress
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Foreword 1

As I was reading this book, I couldn’t help but think of the famous idiom ready, fire, aim that refers to taking immediate action and making uninformed decisions before completely understanding the situation or problem domain. Undeniably, this idiom remains pervasive in our industry today. Part of the reason for this is the all-too-familiar three-choice problem—we can make it fast, cheap, or good, but you can only pick two. You guessed it; most product owners and business stakeholders will pick cheap and fast, which implies that it usually won’t be good. The other reason is code generation through AI, which focuses on the functionality of the system (what makes it cheap and fast) and overlooks the architecture (what makes it good). ...
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ISBN: 9798868827822