Kubai Kevin

6 articles tagged Systemdesign

AI stole system design

AI can generate a polished system design in seconds. Here is how to redesign interviews around live debugging so you test real understanding.

11 min read · 21 June 2026

One payment stack for Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana

How to unify M-Pesa, Flutterwave, Paystack and mobile money behind one payment abstraction, with fallback logic, reconciliation and compliance.

13 min read · 20 June 2026

AI interviews break systems: 5 real mistakes in 2026

AI coding assistants assume a standard Docker environment. Here are five failure modes that break builds in CI, with fixes, verification steps, and a checklist.

14 min read · 20 June 2026

AI Interviews: Four Resilience Questions That Matter

AI screening interviews grade production resilience, not algorithm puzzles. Learn the four fault-injection questions and how to measure candidate fixes.

13 min read · 14 June 2026

AI interviews broke system design: 3 patterns that

AI design tools produce complete-looking architectures that fail under real load. Three patterns, why they happen, and how to catch them before staging.

15 min read · 11 June 2026

Build a search system in 2026: semantic, keyword

How to build a hybrid search service with PostgreSQL, pgvector, and Redis: schema, keyword and semantic queries, reranking, caching, and how to measure recall.

13 min read · 10 June 2026