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Channels like Arjay McCandless
@arjay_the_dev134K subscribers
- Typical views
- 127.1K
- Uploads a week
- 4.9
- Typical length
- 14 min
- Outlier rate
- 25%
8 rivals
Picked Oct 31, 2026
From the channels Arjay McCandless mentions and the ones covering the same ground. Views, length and outlier rate are long-form only.
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ByteByteGo
@bytebytego1.4M subscribers
Animated system design explainers for big tech interviews and real architecture concepts.
- Typical views
- 102.9K
- Uploads a week
- 0.4
- Typical length
- 6 min
- Outlier rate
- 16%
Beating their usual views
- 5.8x8 Most Important System Design Concepts You Should Know598K views
- 4.6xWhy Everyone’s Talking About MCP?474.2K views
- 4.4xApache Kafka Fundamentals You Should Know452.9K views
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Anton Putra
@antonputra122K subscribers
Benchmarks of languages, databases and cloud infrastructure under load, like the $12 server tests.
- Typical views
- 28.7K
- Uploads a week
- 0.6
- Typical length
- 8 min
- Outlier rate
- 15%
Beating their usual views
- 6.5xgRPC vs REST vs GraphQL: Comparison & Performance187.8K views
- 3.8xFastAPI vs Go (Golang) vs Node.js: Performance & Price110.4K views
- 3.5xGo (Golang) vs TypeScript Performance Benchmark (2026)99.6K views
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Gaurav Sen
@gkcs765K subscribers
System design lessons and interview prep for distributed systems and scaling.
- Typical views
- 36.4K
- Uploads a week
- 1.9
- Typical length
- 8 min
- Outlier rate
- 15%
Beating their usual views
- 5.9xAI Interview #6 - 1M context window in LLM?214.4K views
- 2.2xAI Interview #7 - Why is this chatbot failing?79.1K views
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Hello Interview
@hello_interview269K subscribers
System design interview breakdowns from ex-big-tech engineers.
- Typical views
- 66.6K
- Uploads a week
- 0.6
- Typical length
- 17 min
- Outlier rate
- 30%
Beating their usual views
- 5.1xKafka vs RabbitMQ342.9K views
- 4.5xDistributed Transactions Explained: 2 Phase Commit vs Saga Pattern296.8K views
- 2.2xAI Coding Interview w/ Meta Staff Engineer149.4K views
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The PrimeTime
@theprimetimeagen1.2M subscribers
Reacts to language comparisons, performance debates, and dev news, including Rust and AI coding.
- Typical views
- 534.5K
- Uploads a week
- 6
- Typical length
- 13 min
- Outlier rate
- 14%
Beating their usual views
- 2.6xThe Mathematics are Mad1.4M views
- 2.0xA total disaster1.1M views
- 2.0xThey can’t take it anymore1.1M views
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Dreams of Code
@dreamsofcode211K subscribers
Backend, Go, Rust and infrastructure tutorials aimed at working developers.
- Typical views
- 82K
- Uploads a week
- 0.2
- Typical length
- 20 min
- Outlier rate
- 20%
Beating their usual views
- 4.7xWriting code by hand is now an advantage384.7K views
- 3.4xdocker stack is my new favorite way to deploy to a VPS276.3K views
- 3.3x10 CLI apps that have actually improved the way I work in the terminal272.2K views
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Fireship
@fireship4.3M subscribers
Fast tech explainers and dev news covering languages, frameworks, outages and security.
- Typical views
- 1.2M
- Uploads a week
- 2.4
- Typical length
- 6 min
- Outlier rate
- 15%
Beating their usual views
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Hussein Nasser
@hnasr525K subscribers
Backend engineering, databases, proxies and performance deep dives, often with benchmarks.
- Typical views
- 15.4K
- Uploads a week
- 0.3
- Typical length
- 21 min
- Outlier rate
- 32%
Beating their usual views
- 15.4xyou won't forget how postgres works after this237.1K views
- 5.2xdon't let AI rob you80.1K views
- 4.2xAI will not replace elite engineers64.8K views
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