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A complete index of everything published here, from quick notes to long-form essays.
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2026
System Design||25 min read
Caching in Production: Strategies, Pitfalls, and What Companies Actually Do
Distributed Systems||15 min read
TCP for Backend Engineers: From Zero to Practical Mastery
Database Internals||15 min read
Building an LSM-Tree Storage Engine in Go, Part 2: The Memtable
Database Internals||15 min read
Building an LSM-Tree Storage Engine in Go, Part 3: The SSTable
Database Internals||15 min read
Implementing a Write-Ahead Log in Go
System Design||15 min read
Building a Load Balancer in Go, Part 1: Reverse Proxy and Round Robin
System Design||15 min read
Building a Load Balancer in Go, Part 2: Health Checks
System Design||15 min read
Building a Production Job Queue in Go: Concurrency, Tradeoffs, and Getting It Right
Database Internals||13 min read
Write-Ahead Logging: How PostgreSQL Survives Crashes, Powers Replication, and Never Loses Your Data
Database Internals||10 min read
Concurrency Control in Databases: How to Handle Many Things Happening at Once
Database Internals||10 min read
Data Partitioning in Distributed Databases: How to Split Your Data Without Breaking Everything
Database Internals||10 min read
Implementing a B+ Tree in Go: What Databases Actually Use
2025
Distributed Systems||12 min read
Distributed Transactions: The Hard Truth About Keeping Multiple Systems in Sync
Distributed Systems||10 min read
Replication Strategies in Distributed Databases: What Actually Happens When You Copy Your Data
Database Internals||17 min read
How Databases Actually Store Data: Pages, Tuples, and the Architecture That Matters
Distributed Systems||22 min read
Consistency and Data Models in Real Life: The Art of Building Systems That Never Lie to You
Database Internals||17 min read
ACID Properties and Isolation Levels: Deep Dive into Production Database Behavior
System Design||17 min read
Idempotency in Production: Making Your System Safe to Retry
Database Internals||15 min read