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2026

(12)

Sep 04

NOTE AI makes pull requests less central in open-source contribution

Software Engineering #software-engineering #pull-request #ai
Jun 29

NOTE AI Makes Premature Optimization Effortless Leading to Over-Engineered Code

AI Systems #software-engineering #ai #caching
Apr 16

NOTE Asking the right question is more important now

Leadership #leadership #ai #critical-thinking
Mar 30

NOTE If you are deduplicating documents, semantic similarity is probably the

AI Systems #ai
Mar 21

NOTE Canva had to migrate millions of media asset metadata records

Distributed Systems #ai
Mar 16

NOTE Fundamentals Still Matter, Despite AI Handling Implementation

Career Growth #career-growth #ai #fundamentals
Mar 12

NOTE Yes, when the active node goes down, the passive (backup)

AI Systems #ai
Mar 08

NOTE Databases were not designed for the agentic space

AI Systems #ai
Mar 04

NOTE Wrote an essay on the BM25 algorithm that powers Elasticsearch,

AI Systems #ai
Feb 27

NOTE Turns out companies are reimagining the entire SDLC around agents

AI Systems #ai
Feb 21

NOTE TDD was ahead of its time

AI Systems #ai
Feb 19

NOTE Google just released TimesFM (a Time Series Foundation Model) -

AI Systems #ai

2025

(22)

Dec 07

NOTE Wrote an essay on Product Quantization and how it helps

AI Systems #ai
Nov 27

NOTE Wrote an essay on what Q, K, and V matrices

AI Systems #ai
Nov 22

NOTE wrote an essay on how LLM inference works

AI Systems #ai
Sep 17

NOTE I was going through the internals of MySQL, and I

Distributed Systems #ai
Aug 15

NOTE Spent the day going down the rabbit hole of LRU

AI Systems #ai
Aug 06

NOTE Running a distributed system sounds great, until one node starts

AI Systems #ai
Aug 05

NOTE Google built QUIC as they got tired of waiting for

AI Systems #ai
Jul 30

NOTE All databases, in fact, all TCP servers, are susceptible to

AI Systems #ai
Jul 02

NOTE Address matching is a super interesting problem and something I

AI Systems #ai
Jul 01

NOTE Sure, horizontal scaling is great for handling large loads and

Distributed Systems #ai
Jun 06

NOTE When people talk about UDP, we often hear the standard

AI Systems #ai
Jun 05

NOTE When building a highly available system, you generally focus on

AI Systems #ai
May 28

NOTE A few months ago, I was putting together an internal

AI Systems #ai
May 27

NOTE All frontend frameworks are converging

AI Systems #ai
May 23

NOTE Is CDN a reverse proxy, just like a load balancer

Distributed Systems #ai
May 21

NOTE ElasticSearch is a pretty popular search engine, but what happens

AI Systems #ai
May 20

NOTE One project I would highly recommend, if you haven't done

AI Systems #ai
May 19

NOTE I once saw a codebase at a pretty large company

AI Systems #ai
May 13

NOTE What does a Process look like in Linux Kernel source code

Systems Internals #ai
Apr 29

NOTE do one deep research a day

AI Systems #ai
Apr 04

NOTE I always wondered how SQL databases executed the JOINs

Algorithms & Data Structures #ai
Feb 28

NOTE DeepSeek open-sourced their high-performance distributed file system optimized for AI

AI Systems #ai

2024

(1)

Jan 13

NOTE A few weeks back, I spent some time reading about

AI Systems #ai

2023

(2)

Dec 22

NOTE We keep making software complex enough to fit and use

Distributed Systems #ai
Mar 05

NOTE Spent this weekend reading about the internals of MP3 file

AI Systems #ai