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Backend & Infra
7 posts2020–2026
Backend & Infra
- From Hot Partitions to Stable Throughput: Lessons From Kafka in Production (opens on Medium)
What partition skew, consumer lag, and downstream bottlenecks taught me about operating Kafka at scale
- How to Choose the Right Messaging System in Distributed Systems (opens on Medium)
A practical guide to task queues, Log-Based Queues, and Pub/Sub
- Partitioning vs. Sharding: A Practical Guide to Scaling Beyond One Machine (opens on Medium)
Confused by database scaling? Here is a plain-English breakdown of partitioning and sharding, and how they keep your app running fast.
- How Kafka Really Works: Lessons from a 60M+ Events/Day Production Pipeline (opens on Medium)
Understanding Kafka's core architecture through real production experience at 60M+ events per day.
- Consistency in Database (opens on Medium)
Learn data consistency in the databases, and when to use which type of consistency. Also, learn about different types of transactions.
- OSI Model Demystified (opens on Medium)
In this blog, we have taken an example of Netflix to unveil the secret of the OSI model. Communication is explained as in humans are…
- Kubernetes Architecture Demystified (opens on Medium)
In this blog, I have unveiled the underhood working of Kubernetes, so that developers can get a better understanding of Kubernetes.