Blogs (51)

Every week, I document and articulate my thoughts and learnings on Career Growth, Database Internals, and Engineering Explorations. Here are all blogs I wrote to date.

Blogs (51)

Google vs DuckDuckGo vs Bing: Which Search Engine Is Actually Best in 2026?

How Social Media Quietly Shapes Elections (And Your Political Views)

I Found the Exact Situations Where ChatGPT and Gemini Fails

I Tested Notion vs Obsidian vs Todoist — Here’s What Actually Works

Comparing Shopify and Custom eCommerce Development: Cost, Control & Scalability

ACID Properties in Database Systems: The Foundation of Reliable Data Management

What Cookies Actually Are (Beyond the Pop-Up)

Understanding Type Systems: Dynamic, Static, Strong, and Weak Typing

Optimal Route Planning in Delhi Metro Using Graph Algorithms

Unique ID generator — Twitter snow flake design

How to Properly Delete Stuff

Using S3 Buckets with Tokens: Secure Access Without Exposing Credentials

The Complete Guide to Unique ID Generators: Methods Explained

Cryptographic Hashing: Why SHA, bcrypt, and Argon2 Exist

Rate Limiting 101: How to Protect Your APIs at Scale

Four Buzzwords, Four Meanings: AI vs DS vs ML vs DL

Strategies to Handle Both Reads and Writes at Scale

Message Queues Explained Without Buzzwords

Shell Scripting Cheat Sheet

A Deep Dive into NTFS, EXT4, and APFS

Strategies to Scale Database Writes

Why Binary Search Is Preferred Over Ternary Search Despite log₃(n)

C++ Tricks to Turn You Into a Code Ninja

Strategies to Scale Database Reads

Implementation and Performance Comparison of Sequential and Parallel Merge Sort Does Parallel Merge Sort Really Win? Implementing and Comparing from Scratch

Understanding the Tradeoff Between Reads and Writes in Databases and Why You Can’t Optimize Both at the Same Time

Chess.com’s Authentication Flow — What’s Missing and How to Fix It

How I Reduced API Latency by Using Caching

How Blockchain Works

Understanding Gradient Descent

Coding a Tic-Tac-Toe Engine That Never Loses — Full Web App Included

Building a Collaborative Space for Low-Level Design Patterns

How Timsort Beats QuickSort in Real-World Scenarios

Automating USB Data Backup: How I Built a Silent USB Copier

From Notion to Hugo: Building a Fully-Automated Blog Pipeline

How I Combined NLP, Freshness & Wilson Score to Build a Better Ranking System

From Monolith to Microservices: Breaking the Big Snowball into Many Rolling Pebbles

Understanding Object-Oriented Programming Through Game of Thrones

From WebSockets to SSE: Real-Time Communication in System Design

System Design: Building a Notification Service

How Search Engines Rank Results (Simplified with Real Signals)

Why Bloom Filters Are Perfect for Maybe Questions

Comparing Log-Structured and B-Tree Storage Engines

What Happens During a TLS Handshake (Step-by-Step, No Jargon)

Cache Invalidation Strategies That Actually Work in Production

Proxies and Load Balancers Enhance Web Performance and Security

Linux Learning Notes

How Database Indexes Actually Speed Up Reads (And When They Don’t)

Speeding Up Systems With Smart Storage

Designing a Rate Limiter That Survives Traffic Spikes

A Short Timeline of The Evolution of HTTP