--- title: Best Milan Jovanović posts — October 2025 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Milan Jovanović posts from October 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/milanjovanovic/best-of/2025/10 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/milanjovanovic/best-of/2025/10 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Milan Jovanović posts — October 2025 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Milan Jovanović posts from October 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Milan Jovanović — October 2025 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-interview-question-that-changed-how-i-think-about-system-design-4kxeandtd "The Interview Question That Changed How I Think About System Design") Article Milan Jovanović · 46w The Interview Question That Changed How I Think About System Design An interview question about optimizing a 5-minute report generation process reveals a fundamental shift in thinking: the solution isn't making the code faster, but redesigning the system to be asynchronous. Instead of blocking users with synchronous requests, the better approach uses background workers, job queues, and notifications to keep the UI responsive while processing happens independently. This architectural change improves user experience, enables fault tolerance with automatic retries, and allows the system to scale under load without holding open connections or locking up resources. 80 2 [See all Milan Jovanović archives](/sources/milanjovanovic/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/milanjovanovic/best-of/2025/10#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/milanjovanovic/best-of/2025/10","name":"Best Milan Jovanović Posts — October 2025","description":"The most upvoted Milan Jovanović posts from October 2025, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/milanjovanovic/best-of/2025/10#items","numberOfItems":1,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-interview-question-that-changed-how-i-think-about-system-design-4kxeandtd","name":"The Interview Question That Changed How I Think About System Design"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Milan Jovanović","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/milanjovanovic"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/milanjovanovic/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"October 2025"}]}]} ```