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Practical notes from projects I've built, decisions I've had to make, and lessons learned along the way. I write about engineering fundamentals, modern front-end work, and new tools I'm exploring with a hands-on mindset.
March 28, 2026
Indexes speed up data access. Proxies shape how requests reach services. Together they show a common system design tradeoff: add a layer, reduce a more expensive cost.
March 20, 2026
How caching improves resource utilization and how data partitioning enables horizontal scaling, plus the tradeoffs and constraints that come with each approach.
March 18, 2026
How load balancers work, where they sit in a distributed system, and the nine algorithms that determine how traffic gets distributed.
March 14, 2026
Breaking down the five core properties every distributed system is measured against: scalability, reliability, availability, efficiency, and manageability.
March 10, 2026
My first takeaway from Grokking the System Design Interview: this interview is less about a perfect answer and more about how clearly you reason through scale, tradeoffs, and communication.
March 6, 2026
Why strong engineers think beyond tickets and pixel-perfect output to focus on business value, collaboration, and solving the right problem.
March 4, 2026
Part 4 of a SOLID series: why Interface Segregation and Dependency Inversion work together to reduce coupling, improve testability, and keep systems easy to evolve.
March 3, 2026
Part 3 of a SOLID series: how to apply Liskov Substitution Principle with behavioral contracts, safe polymorphism, and composition over inheritance.
March 2, 2026
Part 2 of a SOLID series: how to apply Open/Closed Principle pragmatically, extend behavior safely, and avoid unnecessary abstraction.
February 27, 2026
Part 1 of a SOLID series: why Single Responsibility Principle is still foundational for scalable, maintainable, reliable software, especially in AI-assisted development.
February 25, 2026
Why communication, collaboration, and strong engineering fundamentals now matter more than raw coding speed in an AI-assisted world.
February 22, 2026
A production SSR bug caused by random list keys in React, and how deterministic ID generation resolved hydration mismatches with predictable behavior.
February 19, 2026
Why writing specs before code creates better software, eliminates ambiguity, and is the natural companion to AI-assisted development.
February 18, 2026
How I designed a clean blog architecture with Markdown-first content, premium syntax highlighting, and room to scale.