22h ago · 2 min read · In this article, I will discuss on how I built a simple video transcoding pipeline on AWS using an event-driven architecture. The goal is to automatically process uploaded videos and generate multiple
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16h ago · 27 min read · TLDR: Partitioning splits one logical table into smaller physical pieces called partitions. The database planner skips irrelevant partitions entirely — turning a 30-second full-table scan into a 200ms single-partition read. Range partitioning is best...
Join discussion13h ago · 8 min read · A negative bank balance shouldn’t really be possible. You can’t withdraw more money than you have. At least, that’s how it’s supposed to work. If you’re a student, though, I’m sure it feels very possi
Join discussion23h ago · 3 min read · At first glance, sending a message on WhatsApp feels instant and simple. But behind that single action lies a highly optimized distributed system designed for low latency, high reliability, and massiv
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1d ago · 7 min read · Everyone is posting MCP demos. "Look, my agent can call a tool." "Look, it can query a database." Cool. That’s not a system. That’s a script with a protocol. If you’ve worked with Docker, modular ar
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1d ago · 14 min read · Most semantic search systems don’t fail at the embedding layer. They fail at the architecture layer. When I started building a semantic search API with Spring Boot and pgvector, I expected the hard pa
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1d ago · 26 min read · Over the past few months, I have been building a system that I internally call an “anime factory”: it takes a source episode as input and produces a ready-to-publish YouTube Short with dynamic reframi
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