The story behind Distributed Readings.
While preparing for system design interviews, I realized that the best way to understand distributed systems isn't just reading textbooks — it's seeing how companies like Netflix, Uber, and Stripe actually solve real problems at scale.
I started reading engineering blogs religiously. But keeping track of articles across a dozen different blogs, remembering which ones were relevant to which concepts, and connecting them back to interview topics became its own challenge.
So I built Distributed Readings — a personal tool that automatically aggregates engineering blog posts, uses AI to extract the key system design concepts, and gives me a clean place to take notes and track my learning.
RSS feeds from 12+ engineering blogs are checked weekly for new posts.
Claude AI reads each article and extracts the core problem, solution approach, and system design concepts.
Articles appear here with summaries, tags, and space for personal notes — connecting real-world engineering to interview concepts.
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