Engineering Articles & Insights

Reflections on distributed architecture, stream processing, performance engineering, and system design.

2025-01-146 min read

Scaling Event-Driven Stream Processing with Go and Apache Kafka

How we achieved 350K events/second with sub-2ms p99 latency using lock-free ring buffers and zero-copy JSON parsing.

GoKafkaDistributed Systems
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2024-11-208 min read

Practical RAG: Hybrid Dense-Sparse Retrieval and Cross-Encoder Re-Ranking

Overcoming document boundary degradation and hallucinations in enterprise document intelligence pipelines.

AIpgvectorNext.js
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2024-08-105 min read

Zero-Downtime Multi-Region Canary Releases on Kubernetes

Designing automated rollback gates using Prometheus error-budget telemetry and Envoy traffic shifting.

KubernetesCloudDevOps
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