Systems Design & Architecture

The Perils of Premature Optimisation in Distributed Treasure Hunts

xDS Protocol Deep Dive: The Universal Control Plane API Behind Envoy and Istio

The Veltrix Catastrophe: A Cautionary Tale of Layered Complexity and Scaling Limitations

From Zero to Hired: 10 Steps to Become a Full Stack Developer in 2026

Why Our Treasure Hunt Engine Kept Exploding and How We Fixed It

Why Next.js Dominates Modern Web Development

What Shocked Me Most About Go as a JavaScript Developer

We discovered the real workflow during lunch conversations.

Designing a System to Survive Its Own Success: Lessons from the Treasure Hunt Engine's Scaling Fiasco

Rethinking the Singleton Design Pattern in Selenium: Architectural Salvation or Automated…

Rethinking the Singleton Design Pattern in Selenium: Architectural Salvation or Automated…

The Most Insidious Part of Treasure Hunt Engine: Why Default is Not Your Friend in Distributed Tracing

Web Application Scope Needs State Design Before Screens

The Lie of Perfectly Scalable Treasure Hunts

Go Panics, Controlled: Boundaries That Protect Users

Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There

Forget Everything You Know About OOP — Go Works Differently

How I Built a Real-Time, Non-Blocking Sudoku Game Engine in Modern C++

Lessons from Building Bombie: SPA Deep Links, CSP, and an Iframe Preview

Extreme Performance and Efficiency

The Impact of Eventual Consistency on the Developer Mindset

Build a Real-Time Excalidraw-like Collaborative Canvas using Velt MCP and Antigravity🎉

Confining E-commerce in a Sandbox: How a Single Systems Decision Almost Killed Our Digital Product Business

Microservices Were Never About Technology

Microservices Were Never About Technology

System Design Interview Questions: A Handy Collection

How I Practice System Design with AI (URL Shortener Walkthrough)

Undefined Behavior: Ghosts in the Fog, or Boundaries of a Model?

Por qué dejé de usar useEffect para sincronizar estado y qué uso ahora

The Problem of Platforms Thinks They Know Best

Mastering Next.js 16 Server Actions & Forms: The Future of Full-Stack React | Muhammad Arslan

Mastering State Management in Angular 20

Rust Concurrency: Threads, Channels, Mutex & Sync (Part 4)

Consensus Made Understandable — The Raft Algorithm

The Systems Programmer’s Guide to the TLB for Low-Latency C++ Programming

In my latest signal article, I explore how priority queues and layered execution can help a scheduler preserve interaction responsiveness while still maximizing performance utilization.

Building a Smarter Scheduler: Priority Queues and Layered Execution

Roast my approach to solve this question: Coffee Ordering System (Salesforce interview question)

The Truth About Dual Writes

Event-Driven Architecture: The Architectural Shift That Changed Distributed Systems

Event-Driven Architecture: The Architectural Shift That Changed Distributed Systems

The Reliability Theater Problem: Why Engineering Metrics Are Often Organizational Fiction

The “Goldfish” of Software Architecture: What is a Stateless Application?

Most CMS Platforms Aren’t Built for Full Lifecycle Ownership

The Tech Stack Audit: What Most Small Businesses Find When They Finally Look

The Go Service That Slowed Down Without Errors

Claprec: Database Design - Modeling the Data (5/6)

Intel, Windows, and the Myth of Low-Level Control: A Searing Critique of Core-Binding