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A field notebook, in progress
Notes I'm collecting as I read and work through backend systems, distributed architecture, and the operational discipline behind production code.
Engineering2026-04-22
Why Event-Driven Beats Request/Response for Realtime Workloads
Study notes on event-driven architecture — what it actually buys you, and the failure modes I want to recognise before I hit them.
7 minRead
Infrastructure2026-03-30
Scaling Stateful WebSocket Infrastructure
Study notes on what makes WebSockets hard at scale — sticky routing, presence, cross-region fan-out — and the patterns that keep showing up in real systems.
9 minRead
Infrastructure2026-03-04
Notes on Running Things in Linux Production
Study notes on the operational discipline behind production Linux — the kernel-facing tools, the limits, the boring parts that repeatedly turn out to matter most.
8 minRead