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Part 2: Go Channels Are Not Lock-Free, Just Well-Hidden

In Part 1, we walked through what happens under the hood when you use <- in Go — from buffers and queues to goroutine parking. We saw how…

3d ago

Part 2: Go Channels Are Not Lock-Free, Just Well-Hidden

3d ago

The Low-Level Truth About Go Channels: What Happens Beneath <-

Go channels are one of the most elegant features of the language. With just a ch <- value or val := <-ch, you're able to synchronize…

5d ago

The Low-Level Truth About Go Channels: What Happens Beneath <-

5d ago

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…

Jun 11

How Redis Helps Maintain Consistency in Distributed Systems

Jun 11

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

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

Jun 9

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

Jun 9

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

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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