Hrishikesh Dalal

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Hrishikesh Dalal

Feb 1

The Jungle Protocol: Turning my Professional Journey into an Adaptive Quest

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Jan 21

System Design: EP 14 - The Coffee Shop Guide to Understanding Message Brokers

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Jan 16

System Design - EP 13: Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)

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Jan 14

System Design EP: 12 - Why Your Database Hates Your Images: A Guide to BLOBs

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Jan 13

EP 11: The Legend of ShopStream: The In-Memory Revolution

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Jan 12

EP 10: The Legend of ShopStream: The NFS (Caching)

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Jan 11

EP 9: The Legend of ShopStream: The Gatekeeper Chronicles

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Jan 10

EP 8: The Legend of "ShopStream": A Tale of Two Architectures

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Jan 2

EP 7: The "Join" Tax vs. The "Storage" Tax

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Jan 1

EP 6.4: What is SHARDING?

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Jan 1

EP 6.3: Master-Slave Architecture

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Dec 31 '25

EP 6.2: A Simple Guide to Database Partitioning

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Dec 29 '25

EP 6.1: How to Search 1 Billion Rows in Milliseconds

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Dec 29 '25

EP 5: Autoscaling - Building Systems that Breathe

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Dec 29 '25

EP 14: The Rate Limit War - Stopping Brute Force and Bot

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Dec 29 '25

EP 13: SQL Injection Isn't Dead - It Just Evolved

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Dec 29 '25

EP 12: Stop Storing JWTs in LocalStorage

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Dec 29 '25

EP 11: Think Like a Hacker

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Dec 29 '25

EP 10: Git Hooks - The "Pre-Flight" Check for Your Code

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Dec 28 '25

EP 9 - Type-Safe APIs: Ending the Frontend-Backend War

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Dec 28 '25

EP 8 - The "N+1" Database Killer - A Silent Performance Drain

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Dec 28 '25

EP 7 - Why 'Frontend Validation' is a Myth

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Dec 28 '25

EP 6 - Don't Kill Flaky APIs: The Art of Resilient Retries

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Dec 28 '25

EP 5 - Why Your Server Crashes on 1GB Uploads

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Dec 28 '25

EP 4.2 - CA vs. AP vs. CP - What to Choose and When

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Dec 28 '25

EP 4.1 - The CAP Theorem - You Can't Have It All

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Dec 28 '25

EP 3.2 : Throughput

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Dec 28 '25

EP 3.1 - Latency

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Dec 28 '25

EP4 -Logging vs. Console.log: The Production Reality Check

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Dec 28 '25

The API Response Standard: Stop Your Frontend from Crashing

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Dec 27 '25

EP 3: The .env Disaster: Why Your App is a Ticking Time Bomb (and How to Fix It)

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Dec 27 '25

EP 2: Vertical Scaling: Is Bigger Always Better?

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Dec 27 '25

System Design 0-to-1: Why the World's Biggest Apps Scale Horizontally

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Dec 27 '25

System Design 0-to-1: How WhatsApp Scales to 2 Billion Users (Ep. 1)

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Oct 14 '25

Vanilla Verse & React Verse — Beginner-Friendly Open Source

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System Design: EP 14 - The Coffee Shop Guide to Understanding Message Brokers

System Design - EP 13: Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)

System Design EP: 12 - Why Your Database Hates Your Images: A Guide to BLOBs

EP 11: The Legend of ShopStream: The In-Memory Revolution

EP 10: The Legend of ShopStream: The NFS (Caching)

EP 9: The Legend of ShopStream: The Gatekeeper Chronicles

EP 8: The Legend of "ShopStream": A Tale of Two Architectures

EP 7: The "Join" Tax vs. The "Storage" Tax

EP 6.4: What is SHARDING?

EP 6.3: Master-Slave Architecture

EP 6.2: A Simple Guide to Database Partitioning

EP 6.1: How to Search 1 Billion Rows in Milliseconds

EP 5: Autoscaling - Building Systems that Breathe

EP 14: The Rate Limit War - Stopping Brute Force and Bot

EP 13: SQL Injection Isn't Dead - It Just Evolved

EP 12: Stop Storing JWTs in LocalStorage

EP 11: Think Like a Hacker

EP 10: Git Hooks - The "Pre-Flight" Check for Your Code

EP 9 - Type-Safe APIs: Ending the Frontend-Backend War

EP 8 - The "N+1" Database Killer - A Silent Performance Drain

EP 7 - Why 'Frontend Validation' is a Myth

EP 6 - Don't Kill Flaky APIs: The Art of Resilient Retries

EP 5 - Why Your Server Crashes on 1GB Uploads

EP 4.2 - CA vs. AP vs. CP - What to Choose and When

EP 4.1 - The CAP Theorem - You Can't Have It All

EP 3.2 : Throughput

EP 3.1 - Latency

EP4 -Logging vs. Console.log: The Production Reality Check

The API Response Standard: Stop Your Frontend from Crashing

EP 3: The .env Disaster: Why Your App is a Ticking Time Bomb (and How to Fix It)

EP 2: Vertical Scaling: Is Bigger Always Better?

System Design 0-to-1: Why the World's Biggest Apps Scale Horizontally

System Design 0-to-1: How WhatsApp Scales to 2 Billion Users (Ep. 1)

Vanilla Verse & React Verse — Beginner-Friendly Open Source