Deep Dive on Consistent Hashing
A guide to consistent hashing — how it works, why it matters for distributed systems, virtual nodes, and production use in Redis and DynamoDB.
The Archive of
Intentional Thought
Technical essays, architectural deep-dives, and practical guides at the intersection of code and design.
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Serverless vs Containers — The Decision I Keep Revisiting
A practical guide to choosing between AWS Lambda and containers for production workloads — cold starts, cost modeling, and real tradeoffs.
System Design Patterns for Scaling Reads
A practical guide to scaling read-heavy systems — caching strategies, read replicas, CQRS, and materialized views, with architecture diagrams.
Building a Production RAG Pipeline — From Chunking to Retrieval to Generation
An end-to-end guide to building a RAG pipeline with LangChain, OpenAI embeddings, and a vector database — chunking, retrieval tuning, and eval.
Prompt Engineering Patterns That Actually Work in Production
Six battle-tested prompt engineering patterns for production LLM systems, with real code and real failure modes tutorials leave out.
Jenkins Pipeline with Jenkinsfile - How To Schedule Job on Cron and Not on Code Commit
How to create Jenkins pipeline using Jenkinsfile, and schedule job on cron schedule, not on code commit.
Jenkins Pipeline - How to run Automation on Different Environment (Dev/Stage/Prod), with Credentials
How to run Automation on Different Environment (Dev/Stage/Prod) by Jenkinsfile and Overriding Environment Variables. Also taking credentials.
How to Fetch Multiple Credentials and Expose them in Environment using Jenkinsfile pipeline
Learn how to Fetch Multiple Credentials and Expose them in Environment using Jenkinsfile pipeline
How to Git Clone Another Repository from Jenkin Pipeline in Jenkinsfile
Learn how to Git Clone Another Repository from Jenkin Pipeline in Jenkinsfile.
Jenkinsfile - How to Create UI Form Text fields, Drop-down and Run for Different Conditions
How to Create UI Form Text fields, Drop-down and Run for Different Conditions or different environments
Java Log4j Logger - Programmatically Initialize JSON logger with customized keys in json logs
How to programmatically initialize a Log4j JSON logger in Java with custom global and dynamic key-value pairs in log output.
Kubernetes - How to Solve Gateway Timeout with Http Statuscode Error 504
How to solve HTTP 504 Gateway Timeout errors in Kubernetes caused by Ingress proxy timeout settings.