Implementing Exactly-Once Stateful Streaming with Apache Pulsar and RocksDB
A deep dive into combining Apache Pulsar’s messaging backbone with RocksDB’s embedded state engine to achieve exactly-once semantics in stateful stream processing.
Distributed-Systems
User Safety: safe — A Hands-On Build Guide for Systems Engineers
A complete build guide for a User Safety monitoring system — ‘safe’ — that demonstrates distributed event processing, real-time alerting, and fault tolerance. Includes architecture diagrams, runnable Python code, and a senior-level extension roadmap.
Build a Ring Attention Engine: A Hands-On Guide for Signal-Level Systems Engineers
A hands-on build guide for implementing ring attention — the technique behind near-infinite context transformers — as a portfolio project that signals deep distributed systems and ML engineering skill to hiring managers.
Optimizing Redis Cache Stampede Protection: Request Coalescing and Probabilistic Early Expiration
Learn how request coalescing and probabilistic early expiration work together to eliminate cache stampede in Redis-backed systems, with production-grade implementation patterns and real failure scenarios.
Build a Distributed Task Queue From Scratch: A Portfolio Project That Signals Senior Systems Skill
A hands-on guide to building a distributed task queue from scratch — covering persistence, retry logic, dead letter queues, and a web dashboard — as a portfolio project that signals real systems engineering ability.