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Where I take a break from tech projects and writing about magical stories to do both at the same time. Because software is our real world's magic system!

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Aug 16, 20264,257 words21 min read

Beli System Design

An unnecessarily technical nosedive into a social media food app.

theorysystem design

Aug 10, 20261,714 words9 min read

Building a Distributed Key-Value Cache part 5/6: WAL and durability

Implementing crash safety with a write-ahead log, checkpointing, and atomic file operations.

projectskey-value cachesystems

Aug 4, 2026274 words1 min read

Visualizing the Bellman-Ford Algorithm

When Djikstra just doesn't cut it.

visualizationsdata structures and algorithms

Jul 30, 20261,405 words7 min read

Building a Distributed Key-Value Cache part 4/6: Replication

Adding replication and leader failover so one cache node can disappear without taking the data with it.

projectskey-value cachesystems

Jul 22, 20261,420 words7 min read

Building a Distributed Key-Value Cache part 3/6: Sharding

Implementing consistent hashing to shard my cache!

projectskey-value cachesystems

Jul 14, 2026971 words5 min read

What even is a production server?

Allow me to get a little carried away with what fascinates me about production servers.

theorysystems

Jul 3, 20261,722 words9 min read

Building a Distributed Key-Value Cache part 2/6: Eviction Policies

As magical as hardware may seem, even it has its limits (which get broken time and time again, mind...).

projectskey-value cachesystems

Jun 26, 20261,565 words8 min read

Building a Distributed Key-Value Cache part 1/6: CRUD

In this post, I’ll build a simple single-node KV cache with CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations.

projectskey-value cachesystems

Jun 12, 2026744 words4 min read

Building a Distributed Key-Value Cache part 0/6: ready... set... Go!

This is my first blog post in a series about designing and developing a distributed key-value cache, but it’s also the only one that won’t go over any code related to the project.

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