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Ravi Lanka

@ravilankaJoined January 2026

Senior Software Engineer | Distributed Systems | Functional Programming Expert

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AI Agents Are Distributed Systems. We Just Gave the Problem a New Name.

Every production failure you'll hit building AI agents — lost state, duplicate side effects, cascading crashes, runaway costs — was solved by distributed systems engineers before most agent frameworks

1Jul 12 · 9 min readravilanka.hashnode.dev

Your Business Logic is Hostage to Your Database

How to Read This Article (Important) This is a long-form architectural deep dive, not a quick tutorial. You'll get the most value if you read it in order: Part I explains why distributed systems force replay and why impurity becomes dangerous Part ...

Jan 16 · 22 min readravilanka.hashnode.dev

What if Your Code Could Survive Any Crash? (It Can)

TL;DR In Part 1, we identified the problem: 60-80% of microservice code is infrastructure. Retries, state machines, idempotency, distributed locks. This post introduces durable execution: the runtime journals every step of your code. Crash mid-execut...

Jan 11 · 25 min readravilanka.hashnode.dev

I Deleted 500 Lines of Infrastructure Code. Nothing Broke.

TL;DR Most microservice codebases are 60-80% infrastructure, 20-40% business logic. We call this the "glue code tax"—and it's killing engineering velocity. This series shows you how to eliminate it. The Audit That Changed Everything Last month, I ...

Jan 4 · 7 min readravilanka.hashnode.dev

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AI Agents Are Distributed Systems. We Just Gave the Problem a New Name.

Your Business Logic is Hostage to Your Database

What if Your Code Could Survive Any Crash? (It Can)

I Deleted 500 Lines of Infrastructure Code. Nothing Broke.

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Ravi Lanka's blogs

AI Agents Are Distributed Systems. We Just Gave the Problem a New Name.

Your Business Logic is Hostage to Your Database

What if Your Code Could Survive Any Crash? (It Can)

I Deleted 500 Lines of Infrastructure Code. Nothing Broke.