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Khushal Agrawal

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I like to learn new skills and talk about my progress with them

Joined June 2024

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KAKhushal Agrawalskippr.hashnode.devAug 10, 2025 · 3 min read

Shunting Yard and Thompson's Algorithms

When most people think of “regex engines,” they imagine complicated parsers or some mystical black box that magically matches strings.Underneath, the best of them use two brilliantly simple ideas — one to turn your messy regex into clean instructions...

KAKhushal Agrawalskippr.hashnode.devAug 9, 2025 · 4 min read

Kafka's Design - a Masterclass in Systems Engineering

Kafka isn’t just “a message queue.” It’s a distributed, high-throughput commit log that moves ridiculous amounts of data with remarkable efficiency. When I started digging into its internals, I expected to find some clever Java code.What I found inst...

KAKhushal Agrawalskippr.hashnode.devAug 8, 2025 · 4 min read

Ditching async/await: A Look at Low-Level I/O with Mio

Ever wondered how high-performance servers like Redis handle thousands of connections on a single thread? The secret lies in a low-level event loop, and in Rust, the tool for that job is Mio. Mio is a fast, low-level I/O library for Rust that focuses...

KAKhushal Agrawalskippr.hashnode.devAug 8, 2025 · 1 min read

What this series is?

A developer's daily log of discoveries, fixes, and insights. This series is a growing collection of short, practical lessons I pick up each day while coding, debugging, learning new tools, or reading documentation. From quirky language behavior and n...

KAKhushal Agrawalskippr.hashnode.devSep 30, 2024 · 8 min read

GSOC Roadmap

Introduction I am Khushal Agrawal, I have completed Google Summer of Code ‘24 under Inkscape. You can find my project’s link here. In this blog, I will explain how you can get into the upcoming Google Summer of Code, from explaining what is open sour...

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Shunting Yard and Thompson's Algorithms

Kafka's Design - a Masterclass in Systems Engineering

Ditching async/await: A Look at Low-Level I/O with Mio

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GSOC Roadmap

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Shunting Yard and Thompson's Algorithms

Kafka's Design - a Masterclass in Systems Engineering

Ditching async/await: A Look at Low-Level I/O with Mio

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GSOC Roadmap