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Notes on backend engineering, distributed systems, and the tools I use.

Oct 24, 20268 min read

Concurrency: From Race Conditions to Distributed Locks

Suppose we have an ecommerce app with an endpoint to buy a product:

Aug 27, 20265 min read

Docker : A tool every dev should know about

Docker allows us to package an application along with the things it needs to run, instead of manually installing everything on every machine, we can define the environment once, then someone else can run the same environment on their machine.

Aug 22, 20265 min read

Redis: From Caching to In-Memory Data Structures

Redis is one of the most popular data stores used for caching. But Redis is not just a cache. It is an in-memory data structure store that can be used for caching, sessions, queues, counters, leaderboards, rate limiting and many other use cases.

Aug 14, 20263 min read

Apache Kafka: From Message Queues to Distributed Event Streaming

Apache Kafka is a message queue widely used to scale backend systems. In a message queue a producer puts messages in a queue and a consumer pops out those messages and performs operations on it.