The Hard Limits of Large Language Models
What No Amount of Scale Can Fix
Maneesh Chaturvedi
The Hidden Crisis
Why Generative AI Hit a Wall After 2023
Understanding LLM Hallucination and Confabulation
The Challenge of AI Reliability
Async/Await
Understanding Concurrency vs Parallelism in Modern Programming
Leader Election and Self-Healing Distributed Systems
Understanding Coordination in Complex Systems
Common Caching Problems at Scale: A Guide For Backend Developers
Caching is supposed to make things faster. But at scale, your cache can become the very bottleneck you were trying to avoid.
Building a Connection Pool from Scratch: Internals, Design, and Real-World Insights
Most backend developers treat connection pools as invisible plumbing — useful, necessary, but abstract. Until something breaks.
Atomicity Beyond Transactions
A Compass for Modular Software Design
The API Design Manual
The API Design manual I wish someone else had written
Designing for Change: How to Anticipate the Future Without Guessing It
Software design is the art of managing change. But what kind of change should we anticipate, and how should that shape our designs?
What Happens If We All Stop Feeding the Machine?
How humans can reclaim their value in the age of AI by refusing to become just data.
Tidy First? by Kent Beck — Hits And Misses
I recently finished reading Tidy First? by Kent Beck, a short, thoughtful book that champions the habit of cleaning code as a deliberate…