Highlights from New Relic’s Roadmap Showcase
At a recent New Relic business meeting, I had the opportunity to see a preview of their upcoming features and long-term vision. The roadmap was packed with i...
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conference
AMAZON QLDB
Deprecated — Amazon QLDB was retired by AWS in July 2025. This post remains for historical reference and may contain outdated APIs/links. Consider alte...
Notes from AWS Summit in San Francisco April 2018
Below is a series of notes that I took while I was attending the AWS Summit in San Francisco. There was definitely an information overload. However, it was e...
best-practices
Merge Request Best Practices
Overview This is a living document to be used as a reference to the agreed-upon best practices to follow when creating or reviewing a Merge Request (MR).
General Coding Best Practices
Writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code is a critical skill for every engineer. Below are best practices that can help you and your team build reliabl...
Java Coding Best Practices
Here are a few Java Coding Best Practices that I have learned over the years.
faith
The Bible: From Old to New Testament
The Bible consists of 66 books: 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament.
kafka
Optimizing Kafka Streams State Store with RocksDB
Kafka Streams is a powerful library for building real-time stream processing applications on Apache Kafka. One of its key features is local state management ...
case-study
Chegg Commerce: SaaS Vendor Selection (Stripe vs Recurly)
Led the evaluation to migrate Chegg’s commerce infrastructure to a SaaS platform, ultimately selecting Recurly for its In-App subscription support and gatewa...
architecture
Designing a Scalable Webhook Delivery System
Webhooks are a critical integration pattern for modern SaaS platforms. They allow us to notify downstream services and partners in near real-time whenever im...
remote-work
Leading Through Change: Lessons from Remote-First Work Since 2013
When people ask me how long I’ve been working remotely, they’re often surprised by the answer: since 2013. Long before “remote-first” became a mainstream phr...
walkthrough
Onboarding Dgraph: A Local GraphQL Walkthrough
Dgraph is a distributed, fast, and highly scalable graph database designed for efficient storage and querying of connected data. Unlike traditional relationa...