Archive

2025  7

December  2

Building a 500K req/s IP Geolocation Service: Radix Trees, .NET 10, and the Pursuit of Sub-5ms Latency

December 30, 2025 · 11 min · Kia Raad

When Specs Become the Interface: Notes from a Talk on Spec-Driven Development and Agentic Frameworks

December 23, 2025 · 7 min · Kia Raad

November  1

A day at Cafe Ertebat: On Seniority, Architecture, and Quiet Value

November 18, 2025 · 7 min · Kia Raad

October  1

DDD in Real Life: what it is, what it isn’t, and when to reach for it

October 3, 2025 · 5 min · Kia Raad

June  1

Data Platform Engineer vs Data Engineer: Same River, Different Boats

June 13, 2025 · 8 min · Kia Raad

April  1

The Story Behind Distributed Transactions: Choreography vs. Orchestration

April 14, 2025 · 5 min · Kia Raad

March  1

Observability, OpenTelemetry, and the Quest for Truly Understandable Software

March 2, 2025 · 7 min · Kia Raad

2024  6

December  2

RabbitMQ vs. Kafka: Choosing the Right Backbone for Your Event-Driven System

December 31, 2024 · 6 min · Kia Raad

Understanding Events, Messages, and Commands in Distributed Systems

December 1, 2024 · 7 min · Kia Raad

November  1

Contributing to the Linux Kernel: A Practical Roadmap

November 3, 2024 · 8 min · Kia Raad

October  1

Comparing Change Logs and Event Sourcing: Choosing the Right Approach for Your System

October 1, 2024 · 7 min · Kia Raad

August  1

Navigating the Unknown: How to approach a new and unfamiliar codebase

August 8, 2024 · 5 min · Kia Raad

July  1

Becoming a Solutions Architect

July 14, 2024 · 7 min · Kia Raad

2020  1

January  1

Genesis

January 3, 2020 · 1 min · Kia Raad