Backend Engineering
How This Blog Prevents Conflicting Edits
A look inside this blog's editor: revision checks, conflicting saves, local edits, limited history, and the boundary between atomic writes and transactions.
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Technical writing
Articles on distributed systems, backend engineering, Linux, cloud infrastructure and the craft of building reliable software.
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Recursion: A Function Calling Itself with an Exit Condition
The functions which calls itself with a exit condition There are two common types of recursion : Head Recursion: Where you call the recursion function first and perform operations which you need to d
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Rust
Rust Made Me Rethink Error Handling
My early experience learning Rust and why its approach to error handling, mutability, and compiler guidance immediately stood out.
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Distributed Systems
Understanding Raft Consensus
A concise introduction to leader election, log replication, and why Raft makes distributed consensus easier to understand.
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DVA C02 Notes - Storage
Cheat sheet for myself
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rust
Rust Experience
I made Rust panic… and somehow I liked it 🥹
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databases
What Really Happens After You Run a SQL Query - SQL Journey
What the database does after you hit enter
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Article
Intro to Cloud Formation - Infra as Code
CloudFormation is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service where we define the resources we need to deploy in AWS in a coding manner. Generally, CloudFormation uses JSON or YAML for declaring resources
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Article
Git & GitHub in 5 Minutes: Stop Emailing Code! 🚀
Ever had files named final_code.js, final_code_v2.js, or final_code_REALLY_final.js? 😵 We've all been there. It's a messy way to track changes and a nightmare for teamwork. Let's fix this forever with two tools: Git and GitHub. Part 1: Git - Your P...
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promptengineering
Prompt Caching - Simple Explanation
Unlock Faster and Cheaper LLM Responses with Prompt Caching
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