Rocky’s Newsletter
Rocky BhatiaArchitect @ Adobe turned Educator – Teaching System Design & GenAI to 400k+ Engineers
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 39 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 17 days ago |
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From Monolith to Microservices: A Practical Design Guide
10 architecture principles for building systems that are easier to change, scale, deploy, and operate.
Your team spent six months breaking a monolith into 25 microservices.
Now, a simple checkout change requires four pull requests,...
AI Is Lying to You. And You Don't Even Know It.
The final answer is only the surface. The real story is everything that happened before it.
You ask an AI assistant a simple question.
It thinks for a moment and gives you a confident answer.
The answer looks right. The for...
How to Learn Agentic AI in 2026
The roadmap nobody gives you after the demos work and the production incidents begin
A few months ago, I watched a team demo their “fully autonomous AI operations platform.”
The architecture diagram was gorgeous.
Multi-agent coordinat...
A Practical Guide to the Modern System Design Stack
“Everything works in production… until it doesn’t. And when it breaks, it’s never the code. It’s the decisions you made six months ago.”
There’s a moment every engineering team experiences.
`Traffic climbs. Latency creeps. Er...
The Most Dangerous Code Is the Code That Works
Hi Reader,
If you’ve been coding for a few years, you’ve already met this kind of code.
The kind that compiles. Passes tests. Ships cleanly.
And then… slowly becomes untouchable.
You don’t notice it at first.
Until one small change tu...
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