Distributed Systems
Consumer Lag Is a Symptom, Not the Root Cause
A practical guide to reasoning about Kafka lag, partition imbalance, backpressure, and downstream bottlenecks in production systems.
Engineering writing
Notes on systems that survive scale.
Topic-wise writing on distributed systems, Kafka, backend architecture, performance engineering, reliability, and cloud-native infrastructure.
Backend ArchitectureDistributed SystemsReliability
Backend Architecture
Designing Idempotent Job Processing at Scale
Notes on retries, delayed jobs, queue sharding, deduplication, and building worker systems that fail safely.
Reliability
Observability That Actually Reduces MTTR
Tracing, structured logs, metrics, and rollout discipline are most valuable when they shorten the path from symptom to owner.