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MDX-backed notes on systems and debugging.

Starter articles are written to sound like engineering notes a hiring manager would actually want to scan.

Jun 1, 20261 min read

Lessons from Working as a Software Engineer at micro1

What remote backend product engineering taught me about planning, latency, observability, and ownership.

Backend
Microservices
Engineering
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May 18, 20262 min read

Building a Distributed Scheduler from Scratch

The architecture decisions behind a Spring Boot scheduler that can survive concurrency, retries, and worker crashes.

Distributed Systems
Spring Boot
Kafka
PostgreSQL
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May 10, 20262 min read

Kafka Patterns Every Backend Engineer Should Know

Practical Kafka patterns for schedulers, routing systems, backpressure, retries, and failure isolation.

Kafka
Queues
Reliability
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Apr 22, 20261 min read

My First Contribution to OpenTelemetry

A short write-up on parser recovery, baggage headers, and adding regression coverage to a production observability project.

Open Source
OpenTelemetry
Java
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Apr 8, 20261 min read

Debugging a 32-bit C++ Bug in fmt

How a fallback uint128 bitwise operation broke on i686 and what the root cause taught me.

Open Source
C++
Debugging
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