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Prompting is cheap, understanding is expensive, and each skipped review makes the next one harder. This is how AI-assisted velocity can quietly decouple teams from their own codebases.
Writing archive
Everything published under Writing, newest first. Each entry is labelled as part of an investigation, an article or reference. Short engineering notes have their own archive.
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Article · Through the layers
gRPC from the Ground Up: The Real Parsing Stack
What actually happens between bytes arriving on a socket and your gRPC handler running? This article walks one real request through every parsing layer — TCP, HTTP/2 frames, HPACK, gRPC envelope, protobuf — so the magic disappears.- Published on
Most explanations of queues and pub/sub start with buzzwords and skip the only question that matters: why did engineers invent these tools? This article starts from the problem, not the tool.- Published on
Article · Through the layers
Design a Control Plane for a Distributed Database, Explained Like a Tutor
A tutor-style walkthrough of what a distributed database control plane actually is, why metadata is the crown jewel, where Raft fits in, and how to follow one request end-to-end to remember the whole design.- Published on
A reference index of the 30 recurring system design building blocks: what each one is, what problem it solves, and what it costs. Notes collected while studying distributed systems.