Declared State Is Not Observed State
The dashboard is all green. Every health check is passing, every instance reports ready, the deploy went clean. And the system is down. Orders…
Essays & Field Notes
The Journal
Essays on agentic AI and distributed systems, and the architecture that keeps them working under pressure.
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Akka Edge: Shaping the Future of Industry with Edge Computing
Introduction: navigating the digital revolution with Akka at the edge capabilities In the ever-evolving digital technology landscape, a significant shift is taking place, with…
Rust for JVM Engineers: Memory Safety Without a Garbage Collector
For most of my career, memory was something I delegated. On the JVM you allocate freely and let the garbage collector clean up behind…
Event Sourcing: Store What Happened, Not What Is
Most systems store the present tense. A row in a table holds the current balance, the current status, the current address. When something changes,…
Backpressure: The Honest Answer to a Fast Producer and a Slow Consumer
Every streaming system has a fast end and a slow end. A producer reads from a socket, a database, a sensor, another service. A…
Beyond REST: The Schema Is the Contract
Two services agree on bare JSON over HTTP, with no schema governing it. That is not a contract. That is a hope. A bare…
Data Magic: Exploring K-means Clustering
Introduction Brief overview of the blog post Hello, fellow engineers! Looking to dive into the magic behind clustering in machine learning? Well, then you've…
Neural Networks 101: Dive into the Fundamentals
Introduction: Diving into the World of Neural Networks Welcome aboard, folks! We're about to embark on a thrilling journey into the world of neural…
Mastering gRPC Advanced Techniques: A Comprehensive Guide – Part II
Alrighty then! Let's pick up from where we left off in Part 1. Buckle up, and let's dive right in! Implementing gRPC Services Server-side…
Mastering gRPC Basics: A Comprehensive Guide – Part I
Understanding gRPC gRPC and its purpose gRPC is a modern Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework. But what does that mean? Think of it like…