Microsoft engineer posts 16-week design plan

- Aman Kumar at Microsoft posted a 16-week system-design roadmap covering fundamentals, data layers, async messaging, load balancing and consensus topics. - The plan uses real-world examples, including Meta’s consistency choices, and pushes practice on storage, caching and admission-control tradeoffs. - The roadmap trended among system-design communities this week as a structured study guide for L4-style interview questions. (x.com)