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Technical Writings
Deep dives into distributed systems, software engineering architecture, and lessons from building at scale.
Feature Flags: How to Deploy Safely to Production at Big Tech Scale
From naive SQL queries on the hot path to deterministic evaluation engines backed by Redis and pub/sub invalidation — how feature flags actually work at 10,000 TPS.
Zero-Downtime Migration of Amazon Business Checkout to Microservices Using the Strangler Fig Pattern
How I migrated the high-traffic Amazon Business Checkout page from a Java monolith to a scalable microservices architecture with zero downtime, using the Strangler Fig pattern.
Zenoh vs Kafka: Choosing the Right Messaging Backbone for Your System
A deep dive into the architectural differences between Zenoh and Kafka, and when to choose each for your messaging backbone.
Building a Kafka Clone from Scratch in Go
An educational odyssey into the heart of bit-flipping, disk persistence, and network protocols by building Samsa: a lightweight Kafka clone in Go.
Evolving my Python Redis Clone: From Request-Response to Pub/Sub
How I shifted from a request-response paradigm to an async Pub/Sub architecture using inverted indices and asyncio in my custom Redis engine.
How I Built a Redis Server from Scratch in Python
A high-performance async Redis client built from scratch in Python.