Arjay McCandless

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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-Amazo...

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CICD Pipelines 101 How Software Actually Reaches Production

Agentic AI System Design (from the basics)

the 6 types of database (and when to use each)

My ENTIRE system design + development process

EVERY system design skill you should learn, IN ORDER

i ranked every SWE role

nothing is reliable anymore (here's why)

ai engineering is just software engineering

the future of software engineering

is software engineering back (i looked at the data)

beat 99% of cs majors.

Scaling a web app in 152 seconds.

is writing code dead

Stop applying for software engineering job without a niche.

Stop applying for Software Engineering roles as a CS Major.

Big Corporate Software Engineering is Broken

How to design any system

How Event Driven Architecture Works (System Design)

Bird Game 3 Proves We Just Entered a New Era of Product Building

The NEW job family taking over tech

Why I left FAANG for a Startup

My Honest Advice for Computer Science Majors

Why Every (great) System Design Uses Queues

The System Design Pattern Built for Outages

3 System Design Patterns That Show Up in Every Interview

5 System Design Misconceptions Even Senior Engineers Make

OpenAI Agent Builder - An Unbiased Review

Design and build your first API in 10 minutes

How Spotify Turned Torrenting Into a Business Model