Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. We've all heard it and we all know how to say it. However, few actually know what it means beyond the words. Same goes for "a thread is a lightweight process". As you would have guessed, the primary motivat...
You might have heard about TigerBeetle - https://tigerbeetle.com, a fast and robust database built purposely for financial transactions. If you are someone working in tech around the domain of billing/accounting you would probably also be aware of th...
Overview I recently used the Alerts feature in the Kite app and started wondering how does it work with respect to the high frequency/volume of price updates and user alerts. The bottleneck that pops up immediately is how are we going to match every ...
💡 Note - This writeup is generated by Gemini 2.5 Pro based upon my overall chat with it and referring the codebase implementation from GitHub Repo Building a High-Throughput Stock Alerting System: A Deep Dive into Distributed Architecture 💡 Proc...
There was a wave of posts few months ago on X/Twitter about running your applications on a cheap VPS vs managed platforms/services like Fly.io, Render, Heroku, GCP etc. Although there were a lot of comments about how “easy” it is to run something on ...
Hello there! Recently we all got introduced to Log4j's security vulnerability that poses a risk to thousands of applications depending directly or indirectly on the library. It might seemingly come off as a small matter of version upgrade but for lar...
Hello everyone, This is going to be my first tech blog on the internet and I just about discovered the Auth0 hackathon to go through with it. Although it's not going to be an extensive one as I had only a couple of days to work on it I still found my...
