I see a lot of bad system design advice. One classic is the LinkedIn-optimized “bet you never heard of queues” style of post, presumably aimed at people who are new to the industry. Another is the Twitter-optimized “you’re a terrible engineer if you ever store booleans in a database” clever trick1. Even good system design advice can be kind of bad. I love Designing Data-Intensive Applications, but I don’t think it’s particularly... https://webdesignernews.com/everything-i-know-about-good-system-design/
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