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Thoughts on distributed systems, engineering, and building software at scale.

May 28, 2026—Database Indexes Deep Dive — From B-Trees to LSM Trees

Jan 8, 2026—How the Kafka Producer Works — And Why It's So Fast

Jan 29, 2026—Kafka Broker Internals — Segments, Indexes, and Log Compaction

Feb 19, 2026—Kafka Consumers & Consumer Groups — Pull Model, Partition Assignment, and Rebalancing

Mar 12, 2026—Kafka Replication — ISR, Leader Election, and KRaft

Apr 2, 2026—Kafka Internals — Wire Protocol, Data Encoding, and the RecordBatch Format