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Backend systems, Go, memory allocation, distributed infrastructure, and production failure modes. No beginner tutorials.
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- 01 · CuratedWhat glibc's memory allocator is doing while your service is "just slow"Start here if you want to understand what backend performance actually means. The post traces a real memory issue one layer below where most engineers look.14 min read
- 02 · CuratedThe AWS outage nobody wrote the real postmortem forThe official AWS postmortem tells you what failed. This post asks why the blast radius was larger than the architecture should have allowed.11 min read
Archive 03
- SubstackHow a Request Becomes MemoryJun 2026 · 24 min read
- VisheshAWS US-East-1 Outage October 2025: The DNS Cascade That Paralyzed Snapchat, Fortnite, and Global Cloud Workloads—A Deep Technical Autopsy and Battle-Hardened Resilience BlueprintOct 2025 · 12 min read
- VisheshBeyond `malloc(size)`: A Deep Dive into glibc's Heap InternalsOct 2025 · 9 min read