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SentinelAura: Visual Geographic Arbitrage for Kubernetes with a 3D WebGL Dashboard
How I built a Kubernetes Operator and 3D spatial dashboard that tracks Spot Instance prices across 5 global regions and enables 1-Click compute migration with safety-first dry-run validation.
Buraq: Engineering a Resilient Distributed Task Queue with Go and Redis Streams
A deep-dive into Buraq — a highly concurrent, self-healing task queue built on Go goroutines and Redis Streams with automatic retries, Dead-Letter Queue isolation, and Prometheus telemetry.
Omni-Sync: Building a Real-Time Collaborative Editor with CRDTs and Go
How I architected a high-performance, real-time collaborative markdown editor for SRE Incident Playbooks using Yjs CRDTs, a Go WebSocket signaling server, and Redis persistence.
Implementing Raft Consensus from Scratch: Building Titan KV Store
Building a distributed, strongly consistent key-value store from scratch using Go. Implementing leader election, log replication, and handling node failures without data loss.
Video Automation at Scale: Processing 1,000+ Videos/Day
How we built an AI-powered video automation engine that reduced production costs by 85%, processing 1,000+ videos daily from $500 to $75 per video.
Building Buraq: A Distributed Task Queue Processing 12K+ Tasks/Sec
Architecture deep-dive into Buraq, a custom distributed task queue built with Go, Redis, and Kubernetes that processes 12,000+ tasks per second at sub-5ms latency.
Slashing AWS Costs by $420K/Year: Cloud Optimization Strategies
Practical strategies that reduced client AWS spending by $420K annually through multi-region caching, spot instances, and aggressive CDN policies.
How I Optimized a Cal.com Clone from Lighthouse 65 to 98
A deep dive into performance optimization techniques that took a Cal.com clone from Lighthouse score 65 to 98, reducing bundle size by 60% and LCP from 4.2s to 1.1s.