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How Redis Helps Maintain Consistency in Distributed Systems

A few months back, we were scaling out a background job system. The architecture looked solid: multiple worker nodes, Redis as a task…

2d ago

How Redis Helps Maintain Consistency in Distributed Systems

2d ago

The Bug Isn’t in the Code — It’s in the Conversation

“The code works, but the feature is broken.”

4d ago

The Bug Isn’t in the Code — It’s in the Conversation

4d ago

I Tried a Graph Database for a Week and It Blew My Mind

Why I Did This

Jun 3

I Tried a Graph Database for a Week and It Blew My Mind

Jun 3

Our AWS to GCP Migration: The Good, The Bad, and The Terrifying

When you’re a startup, your cloud provider isn’t just a technical choice — it’s a business decision. For our team, AWS was the default…

Jun 1

Our AWS to GCP Migration: The Good, The Bad, and The Terrifying

Jun 1

Designing Like a Senior: The Java Architecture That Handles Failures Like a Pro

In production systems, failure isn’t a possibility — it’s a guarantee. Senior engineers don’t just write performant code, they design…

May 27

Designing Like a Senior: The Java Architecture That Handles Failures Like a Pro

May 27

Java Forces You to Think in Layers — And That’s a Good Thing

When you write Java long enough, something happens. You start thinking in layers.

May 26

Java Forces You to Think in Layers — And That’s a Good Thing

May 26

DB Caching Strategies That Don’t Break Under Scale

When our database CPU spiked past 90% and latency shot through the roof, it wasn’t our write load — it was our reads. Hundreds of requests…

May 26

DB Caching Strategies That Don’t Break Under Scale

May 26

One Diagram to Rule Them All: The System Design Blueprint That Scales Like Crazy

What if I told you there’s a single architecture diagram that can scale from a weekend project to a billion-user platform? It’s not about…

May 24

One Diagram to Rule Them All: The System Design Blueprint That Scales Like Crazy

May 24

10 Infrastructure Lessons I Learned the Hard Way (So You Don’t Have To)

Infrastructure engineering is one of those disciplines that rewards paranoia and punishes assumptions. Over the past few years, I’ve scaled…

May 23

10 Infrastructure Lessons I Learned the Hard Way (So You Don’t Have To)

May 23

We Cut Page Load Time by 80% — Here’s the Brutally Simple Scaling Fix

Speed is not a feature — it’s the foundation of user experience.

May 22

We Cut Page Load Time by 80% — Here’s the Brutally Simple Scaling Fix

May 22

The Latency Gambler

The Latency Gambler

Tech critic exploring tools, systems & languages beyond hype. Also drawn to quiet minds—people who reach stillness without chasing fame.

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