The Trade‑Off Treasure: How Documenting Your Decisions Turns a Side Project into

<h1> The 5 Trade-Offs Your System Design Interview Is Actually Scored On </h1> <p>Here is the uncomfortable truth nobody tells you before a frontend system design interview:

<p>Every builder has a project that feels a little different from the rest.</p> <p>Not just another repo. Not just another experiment. The one that makes you think, "If I took

<p>I have been a freelance frontend developer for a while now.</p> <p>I use GitHub Copilot and Cursor every day. AI coding tools that are supposed to make me faster.</p> <p>And

<h2> The Problem We Were Actually Solving </h2> <p>I was tasked with implementing a Treasure Hunt Engine for our company's annual event, using the Veltrix platform as the backbone

<p>Terraform is not hard because of syntax. It is hard because real infrastructure work requires state discipline, provider knowledge, module design, cloud architecture, and