Diagram of a user safety event pipeline with Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Go services

User Safety: safe – A Hands-On Build Guide for a Portfolio CV Project

A complete, runnable project that demonstrates distributed event-driven design, backend engineering, and observability skills hiring managers look for in senior and staff-level engineers.

September 9, 2026 · 11 min · 2199 words · martinuke0
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Building a Sliding-Window Attention Manager from Scratch

A from-scratch, runnable Python project that mimics the memory management at the heart of modern LLMs: sliding-window attention with dynamic eviction and a prefix-cache KV store. Includes architecture, code, tests, and a roadmap to senior-level.

September 6, 2026 · 14 min · 2843 words · martinuke0
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Throughput vs Latency: Why Optimizing One Will Almost Always Break the Other

Throughput and latency measure different things, and most of the systems pain we feel at scale comes from pretending they don’t. Here is how they actually trade off, with real production patterns.

September 4, 2026 · 10 min · 1952 words · martinuke0
Diagram of a load balancer distributing HTTP requests across backend server nodes.

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.

September 3, 2026 · 11 min · 2239 words · martinuke0
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Why Copy-on-Write Improves Memory Efficiency in High Concurrency Systems

Copy‑on‑write lets multiple threads share the same memory until a write occurs, dramatically cutting duplication and boosting throughput in concurrent systems.

May 14, 2026 · 5 min · 1013 words · martinuke0
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