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Thoughts on distributed systems, architecture decisions, and lessons learned building production software.

Security as a Scaling Constraint

What working with enterprise-grade security engineers taught me—and why security becomes a design constraint as systems grow.

December 20256 min
SecurityArchitecture

Building Quickerdomain: Sub-100ms Domain Search

How I built Quickerdomain with Go, migrated from BadgerDB to PebbleDB for lower memory usage, used SSEs for streaming results, and frontend tricks like prepending TLDs for perceived speed.

October 202510 min
GoPerformancePebbleDB

Building an AI Website Builder at Seaional

Architecture decisions behind an agentic workflow system with K8s job pods and Azure OpenAI integration.

July 202512 min
ArchitectureAIKubernetes

My First Time with K8s, Helm, and Terraform

Honest reflections on learning Kubernetes, Helm charts, and Terraform at Seaional. What clicked, what didn't, and what I still need to learn.

April 20258 min
KubernetesDevOpsLearning

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