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Senior Java + AI engineer. Kafka, RAG, distributed systems.

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Deployed on Vercel · Mumbai region

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System design, AWS, microservices, AI/ML deployment — practical posts for engineers who want to build production-grade systems.

devops

Kubernetes for Backend Engineers: Deploying Java Services the Right Way

The Kubernetes concepts that actually matter for a Spring Boot service — probes, resource limits sized for the JVM, graceful shutdown, rolling updates, and debugging CrashLoopBackOff without guessing.

DevOpsKubernetesSpring Boot
Jun 5, 202621 min read
hld

API Design at Scale: REST, GraphQL, and gRPC Trade-offs

A practical decision framework for choosing between REST, GraphQL, and gRPC. Covers HTTP semantics, N+1 problems, schema enforcement, streaming, API versioning, rate limiting, and gateway patterns — with real trade-offs senior engineers face.

api-designrestgraphql
Jun 2, 202622 min read
ai-ml

Agentic AI Systems: Tool-Calling, Planning, and Execution

How to build an LLM agent that actually finishes multi-step tasks — tool-calling mechanics, the ReAct planning loop, state management across steps, and the guardrails that keep it from hallucinating its way into a bad action.

AI EngineeringAgentic AILLM
May 29, 202621 min read
system-design

Real-Time Updates at Scale: TCP, Load Balancers, and WebSockets Explained

A practical walkthrough of how real-time updates actually reach a client — the TCP handshake underneath every connection, why Layer 4 load balancers exist, and a working WebSocket architecture like the one behind live location tracking.

System DesignWebSocketsLoad Balancing
May 26, 202619 min read
hld

Service Boundaries & Event-Driven Architecture: Decoupling at Scale

Master the art of defining service boundaries using domain-driven design principles. Explore event-driven architecture, async patterns, saga implementations, and how to decouple services while maintaining consistency and system observability.

microservicesevent-driven-architecturedomain-driven-design
May 22, 202622 min read
ai-ml

Serving ML Models in Production with FastAPI: Async Inference, Streaming, and Deployment

FastAPI has become the go-to Python framework for serving ML models in production. Here's how to build async inference endpoints, stream LLM responses, and deploy them reliably on AWS.

FastAPIMachine LearningPython
May 19, 202620 min read
devops

CI/CD for Spring Boot Microservices: From Commit to Production

A practical, production-minded guide to building a CI/CD pipeline for Spring Boot microservices, covering tests, quality gates, Docker image tagging, environment promotion, blue-green and canary deployments, rollbacks, and secrets.

DevOpsCI/CDSpring Boot
May 15, 202619 min read
hld

Monolith vs. Microservices: When (and Why) to Break Up Your Codebase

A pragmatic analysis of monolith and microservices architectures. Explores deployment models, team scaling, operational complexity, and the actual costs of distributed systems for senior engineers making architectural decisions.

microservicesarchitecturemonolith
May 12, 202618 min read
system-design

Designing for Scale: From 0 to 1 Million Requests/Day

A practical system design walkthrough for scaling a product from a single server to 1 million requests per day, covering load balancing, caching, database bottlenecks, queues, observability, and operational trade-offs.

System DesignScalabilityLoad Balancing
May 8, 202618 min read
ai-ml

Building a Production RAG Pipeline with LangChain4j + Spring Boot

A complete guide to building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems in Java using LangChain4j. Learn chunking strategies, embedding pipelines, vector store integration, and how to ship RAG to production.

LangChain4jRAGSpring Boot
May 5, 202618 min read
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