Kanchan Nath

@kanchan-nath

Writing about backend development and what I learn along the way

IndiaJoined January 2026

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Backend-focused web developer and engineering student.

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KNKanchan Nathkanchannath.hashnode.devApr 1 · 5 min read

Message Queues Explained — Kafka, RabbitMQ, and When to Use Which

There's a moment when you're building a backend where you realize that not everything needs to happen immediately. A user uploads a video — do they need to wait 2 minutes for it to be transcoded befor

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KNKanchan Nathkanchannath.hashnode.devApr 1 · 4 min read

API Gateway and Load Balancing — How Requests Actually Reach Your Services

When I was designing my platform's backend, one question kept coming up — if I have multiple services running, how does a request from the client know where to go? And if one service has multiple inst

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KNKanchan Nathkanchannath.hashnode.devApr 1 · 4 min read

Why I Moved From Monolithic to Microservices for My YouTube-Like Platform

When I started building my backend, I put everything in one place — user logic, video logic, comments, subscriptions — all in one codebase, one server, one deployment. That's called a monolithic archi

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KNKanchan Nathkanchannath.hashnode.devApr 1 · 5 min read

How I Designed the Live Streaming Schema for My YouTube-Like Platform

Adding live streaming to a platform sounds complex, but from a database design perspective it's just a few new collections. Let me show you what I came up with and why each field exists. What Live St

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KNKanchan Nathkanchannath.hashnode.devMar 29 · 4 min read

Two Schema Mistakes I Made Building a YouTube-Like Platform

When I was designing my database schema, I made two mistakes that seemed logical at the time. Both would have caused real problems at scale. Let me walk through them so you don't have to learn the har

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Message Queues Explained — Kafka, RabbitMQ, and When to Use Which

API Gateway and Load Balancing — How Requests Actually Reach Your Services

Why I Moved From Monolithic to Microservices for My YouTube-Like Platform

How I Designed the Live Streaming Schema for My YouTube-Like Platform

Two Schema Mistakes I Made Building a YouTube-Like Platform

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Kanchan Nath's blogs

Recently published

Message Queues Explained — Kafka, RabbitMQ, and When to Use Which

API Gateway and Load Balancing — How Requests Actually Reach Your Services

Why I Moved From Monolithic to Microservices for My YouTube-Like Platform

How I Designed the Live Streaming Schema for My YouTube-Like Platform

Two Schema Mistakes I Made Building a YouTube-Like Platform