Designing a Scalable Distributed Notification System

Pagination Is Not a Detail You Take Lightly

From CRUD to Distributed Systems: Why I'm Building a Twitter Timeline Service (and Documenting Every Phase)

A breakdown of Twitter's fan-out architecture - and why optimizing for reads over writes was one of the most elegant tradeoffs in social media engineering.

Building a Real-Time Analytics System with Apache Kafka: Lessons from My Mini Uber Project

I wanted to understand how companies like Uber process millions of location updates every day. Instead of watching more tutorials, I decided to build a small event-driven backend from scratch using Apache Kafka, Socket.IO, and TypeScript.