Pyxis

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Bengaluru, IndiaJoined March 2026

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Building a Production-Grade Authentication Service (From Scratch)pyxis-authservice.hashnode.dev1 post

Designing a Distributed URL Shortener (Optimized for Read Scalability)distributed-url-shortener.hashnode.dev1 post

Building an LSM Tree Storage Engine from Scratch in C++lsm-tree.hashnode.dev1 post

Designing a Distributed Real-Time Chat System (Backend Deep Dive)distributed-chat-system.hashnode.dev1 post

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PPyxisdistributed-chat-system.hashnode.devMay 15 · 5 min read

Designing a Distributed Real-Time Chat System (Backend Deep Dive)

Most chat applications look simple from the outside. Under the hood, they are complex distributed systems that must handle real-time communication, ordering, failures, and scale. To understand this de

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PPyxislsm-tree.hashnode.devMay 8 · 5 min read

Building an LSM Tree Storage Engine from Scratch in C++

Most developers use databases. Very few understand how they work internally. To bridge that gap, I built a Log-Structured Merge Tree (LSM Tree) based key-value storage engine from scratch in C++ to un

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PPyxisdistributed-url-shortener.hashnode.devMay 1 · 4 min read

Designing a Distributed URL Shortener (Optimized for Read Scalability)

URL shorteners look simple on the surface: map a short code to a long URL and redirect. At scale, the problem becomes very different. Millions of redirects, hot links going viral, and strict latency r

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PPyxispyxis-authservice.hashnode.devMar 28 · 4 min read

Building a Production-Grade Authentication Service (From Scratch)

Most authentication tutorials stop at “generate a JWT and you’re done.” That’s not how real systems work. I wanted to understand authentication deeply, not just use libraries, so I built a production-

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Designing a Distributed Real-Time Chat System (Backend Deep Dive)

Building an LSM Tree Storage Engine from Scratch in C++

Designing a Distributed URL Shortener (Optimized for Read Scalability)

Building a Production-Grade Authentication Service (From Scratch)

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Designing a Distributed Real-Time Chat System (Backend Deep Dive)

Building an LSM Tree Storage Engine from Scratch in C++

Designing a Distributed URL Shortener (Optimized for Read Scalability)

Building a Production-Grade Authentication Service (From Scratch)