How I Cracked Paasa's Secret Hiring ChallengeI was scrolling the internet doing absolutely nothing productive (classic) when someone dropped a link: challenge.paisa.com. The page said: "We're hiring developers. Find the three words hidden in th3Jul 7 · 3 min readblog.saikat.in
I Had No Idea What an Order Book Was. Now I've Built One That Handles 18k RPS.My system specs, because benchmarks without hardware context are just creative fiction. 13th Gen Intel Core i5-13500HX (20 threads, 4.70 GHz boost), 16 GB RAM, Fedora 43 (kernel 6.19.8). The Assignm2May 27 · 19 min readblog.saikat.in
Beyond the Green Dot: Engineering Online Presence using GoLangI'm building Bluppi, a music listening app, as a solo project. At some point I wanted to add a friends activity feed, the part of the home screen that shows which friends are online, what they're list1May 11 · 17 min readblog.saikat.in
How I Got gRPC Working Through Cloudflare Tunnel (The Hard Way)A complete guide to exposing a Go gRPC backend behind college NAT using Cloudflare Tunnel, Docker Compose, and TLS, including every mistake I made along the way. Background I'm a student building Bl2Mar 28 · 7 min readblog.saikat.in
Firebase Draining Your Wallet? Here's How to Stop Paying for Every Single Read.❗ In this blog, we’ll focus on using Dart/Flutter for our code examples, but keep in mind that you can apply these methods in any programming language. The key here is to focus on the techniques, not 3Mar 14 · 8 min readblog.saikat.in
