Feb 2 · 7 min read · In the past, organizations faced challenges with diverse data formats, inconsistent naming conventions, and incompatible systems, leading to data silos and inaccuracies. Data standardization has emerged as a solution, providing unified guidelines for...
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Jan 23 · 6 min read · Introduction: Concurrency Is the Default, Not the Exception In modern backend systems, concurrency is unavoidable. Requests do not arrive one by one. They arrive: In parallel From different users From background jobs From distributed services ...
Join discussionJan 16 · 4 min read · Week 6 was all about bringing CodeAtlas to life on the frontend. After stabilizing the backend and data pipelines last week, I finally started visualizing the data—turning raw Neo4j relationships into an interactive graph UI. This week had some satis...
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Jan 3 · 17 min read · Since the introduction of NextJS server-side components, an efficient pattern for handling data has been widely adopted in the industry. This pattern utilizes NextJS server-side components to fetch data and utilizes React Query to cache data and sync...
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Jan 2 · 5 min read · High-frequency billing systems sit at a difficult intersection: money, speed, and trust.Every request represents value. Every failure creates doubt. And every inconsistency compounds silently until it shows up as a financial mismatch, an audit issue,...
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Dec 20, 2025 · 6 min read · Executive Summary Flight plan systems are message-driven state machines, not simple CRUD applications.At large airspace scale, raw performance is rarely the limiting factor.Safety, correctness, and long-term durability determine whether the system re...
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Nov 20, 2025 · 4 min read · 1. Physical Storage Architecture To the Operating System, SQL Server is simply reading and writing files. Internally, however, it manages a strict hierarchy of logical units. 1.1 File Structure Every database consists of two primary physical files lo...
Join discussionSep 27, 2025 · 4 min read · This article is part of my concurrency series where I break down common problems like race conditions, dirty reads, phantom reads, and deadlocks in simple, glocal terms. Again, system design is not something to joke with as a backend engineer.One of ...
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Aug 28, 2025 · 22 min read · The landscape of distributed systems is a minefield of trade-offs. We chase scalability and fault tolerance, often at the expense of simplicity and, crucially, predictable data behavior. For years, the industry narrative around data consistency has l...
Join discussionJul 31, 2025 · 2 min read · This is one of the most frequently asked interview questions. If you know about microservices, you understand their power. In this article, I will cover some points about when to use microservices, their benefits, and their disadvantages. If you want...
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