Mar 25 · 3 min read · Request → API → Database → Response It works… until it doesn’t. As applications grow, this approach becomes slow, fragile, and hard to scale. So I decided to go beyond tutorials and build something cl
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Mar 1 · 4 min read · Over the past few months, I’ve been taking deep dives into revolutionary open-source projects to understand exactly how they tick under the hood. One project that particularly caught my eye was Ray—a
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Dec 26, 2025 · 18 min read · Python’s concurrency tools let you optimize programs by running tasks in overlapping periods—great for cutting down wait times in I/O-heavy work and taking advantage of multiple CPU cores for compute-intensive tasks. In this article, I’m focusing on ...
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Jun 10, 2025 · 2 min read · In a recent Big Data Analytics lab assignment, we were tasked with ingesting (consuming) data into Databricks from an external system. To tackle this challenge, I explored setting up data producers on a cloud server—leveraging the fact that these ser...
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May 20, 2025 · 2 min read · In distributed systems, message order can make or break correctness for certain use cases—especially financial transactions, audit logs, or real-time event tracking. Kafka helps maintain order in a predictable and efficient way, but there are trade-o...
Join discussionMay 19, 2025 · 7 min read · Kafka Producer Overview Writing messages to Kafka serves many purposes: enabling asynchronous communication between microservices, buffering data before database writes, event sourcing, and more. Each use case has unique demands: Is every message cr...
Join discussionMay 18, 2025 · 2 min read · Kafka producers are responsible for sending data to Kafka topics. Let’s break down how a Kafka producer works internally, step by step, based only on what is required to deliver a message reliably and efficiently. Kafka Producer Components Producer...
Join discussionMay 17, 2025 · 7 min read · The producer-consumer pattern is a fundamental synchronization pattern in multithreaded programming. In this article, we'll dive deep into implementing this pattern in C++ using low-level synchronization primitives - specifically mutex and condition ...
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Jan 19, 2025 · 22 min read · In modern computing, performance is not just about executing one task faster but about doing more tasks simultaneously. Multithreading allows a program to execute multiple threads concurrently, effectively enabling multitasking within a single proces...
Join discussionJan 10, 2024 · 5 min read · The Bounded Buffer problem, also known as the Producer-Consumer problem, is a classic example of a multi-process synchronization problem. The problem describes two processes, the producer and the consumer, who share a common, fixed-size buffer used a...
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