Thoughts on Scale

I write about the intersection of system design, scalability, and business impact. No tutorials—just lessons learned from the trenches of high-growth engineering.

Kafka Deep Dive: An End-to-End Lifecycle of an Event

A comprehensive walkthrough of Kafka’s internals, following a single event from production to consumption, covering partitions, brokers, replication, offsets, retention, and log compaction.

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Why Speed Beats Perfection When Building MVPs

Lessons from early startup experience on why shipping fast, validating demand, and iterating with real feedback matters more than perfect architecture in the MVP phase.

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Designing a Reliable MongoDB Backup System on AWS

How I built a production-ready MongoDB backup pipeline using cron, S3, CloudWatch metrics, and alarms to ensure reliability and observability.

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Implementing Production-Grade Logging with Amazon CloudWatch

A practical breakdown of setting up file-based logging, CloudWatch Agent, log rotation, and retention policies for real production systems.

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My GSoC Journey: Lessons Learned and Tips for Aspiring Contributors

A reflective write-up on my Google Summer of Code journey, covering challenges, mentorship, key learnings, and practical advice for aspiring open-source contributors.

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