Build an HTTP Load Balancer in Go: A CV-Worthy Side Project
A practical, runnable build guide for an HTTP load balancer with health checks and least-connections routing. Architecture, code, and a roadmap to senior-level extensions.
Architecting RocksDB Storage Engines: Selecting Between Tiered and Leveled Compaction for Production Workloads
Compaction strategy is the single most consequential knob in a RocksDB deployment. This post walks through how tiered (universal) and leveled compaction actually work, what they cost at write and read time, and how to pick one based on your workload shape.
Architecting Double-Entry Ledger Systems: Schema, Concurrency, and Auditability for Financial Integrity
How to design a double-entry ledger that stays correct under concurrency: event-sourced schema, Postgres constraints, and append-only audit trails.
Backlinks Won't Get You Your First Customers
Backlinks are a lagging indicator of trust, not a leading indicator of revenue. Here’s the distribution playbook that actually closes first customers.
Transformer Architectures: 2017 → 2025+
From ‘Attention Is All You Need’ to modern mixture-of-experts and state-space hybrids: how the transformer family has evolved and what working engineers should know about the variants in production today.