Montu Mia's System Design

Overview

A weekly system design book published as a LinkedIn newsletter and website, explaining complex system design fundamentals in Bengali through storytelling. Follows the journey of a character named Montu Mia building a video platform, covering topics like scaling, load balancers, networking protocols, caching, and CDNs. Built with a full-stack infrastructure including automated email newsletters, dynamic OG image generation, and a documentation site.

Technologies Used

Key Features

• •Weekly system design chapters in Bengali
• •Automated email newsletter delivery via AWS SES
• •Dynamic OG image generation for social sharing
• •Interactive documentation site with dark/light themes
• •Subscriber management and analytics

Technical Challenges

• •Building an automated newsletter pipeline with AWS SES and React Email
• •Generating dynamic Open Graph images for each chapter
• •Making complex system design concepts accessible through Bengali storytelling
• •Building a documentation site with Fumadocs and MDX

Impact & Results

• •2,000+ subscribers across website and LinkedIn newsletter
• •20,000+ readers reached online
• •Making system design education accessible in Bengali