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Detailed explorations of real engineering problems — diagnosis, solution, tradeoffs, and measured results.
Performance EngineeringFeatured
Optimizing a Critical API from 4s to 0.5s
How I investigated Django ORM bottlenecks, refactor query, and cut API latency by 87% at a fintech platform.
Reduced average latency from ~4s to 0.5s
DjangoSQLPerformanceBackend
Distributed SystemsFeatured
Building a Kafka Data Pipeline: From 8 Hours to 5 Minutes
How I designed a fan-out / fan-in Kafka pipeline to replace a brittle 8-hour DBA process for migrating hierarchical data from Couchbase to MySQL.
Reduced processing time from ~8 hours to ~5 minutes
KafkaData PipelinePythonBackend