Logs

Working notes on backend and distributed systems — the decisions, trade-offs, and things learned the hard way. Less polished than the case studies, closer to the work.

  1. 2 min read

    Keep the hot path honest

    Why a trading core decouples execution from everything downstream, and what that buys you under load.

    • distributed-systems
    • kafka
    • architecture
  2. 2 min read

    When the session can't drop

    Real-time EdTech has a different failure model than request/response. What it takes to keep thousands of live learning sessions open at once.

    • real-time
    • websockets
    • edtech