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Sahil Sarwar

Low-level systems. High-level understanding

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Why Deleting Data is Harder than Writing It

Even if you don’t use Snapchat, as a programmer, you must have seen this meme.

And as a beginner in Software Engineering, I also laughed at this, not realizing what it takes to make something ephemeral at a global scale.

Deletion looks li...

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logs are the source of truth

I started writing this piece as an article on Kafka, not Franz Kafka, but Apache Kafka.

But the more I tried to think about Kafka, the more I kept running into the same idea, over and over again: logs.

Not as debug output or something you...

3 months ago
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Designing Message Queues from First Principles

It’s a new year, and I want to slow down and look at something most of us use without really thinking about: message queues.

We often learn these systems from the outside; from the APIs, configuration flags, and operational guides. But tha...

4 months ago
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Before the Year Ends

Hi ,

I want to thank you for reading, and I hope that you find value in what I write here.

This isn’t a technical breakdown. It’s more of a marker, a reminder of what this space is, and what it isn’t.

Brain Bytes & Binary is about to...

5 months ago
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WebSockets at Scale

In previous posts, we examined how Webhooks work between servers and how SSE works between a client and server, but it’s only unidirectional.

Websockets are the most primarily used protocol for real-time communication between client/server...

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