On-Prem Blue/Green Deployment Journey
How we migrated from a single-process restart deployment to safer, zero-downtime blue/green releases on a self-hosted Linux server.
Blog
Writing on software engineering, backend systems, and things I learn along the way.
Building Real-Time Chat with Go WebSockets
How I shipped a production-grade WebSocket chat service—Hub pattern, presence tracking, and memory-safe design—on Day 26 of my 100-day coding streak.
Crossed Paths, Not Lives
A personal essay on love that arrives too quietly—university corridors, a year lost, unsent messages, and paths that cross without becoming one.
I Found 119 Zombie Connections Silently Strangling Our API — Here's How I Killed Them
Production MySQL was slow and timing out—not mainly because of size, but because 119 sleeping connections had leaked and starved the pool. How we found them, added a read replica, and automated cleanup.
Building a Production-Grade Golang Auth Service
A complete auth microservice in Go: JWT access/refresh with hybrid token storage, Google/GitHub OAuth2, bcrypt passwords, password reset email flows, Redis workers, ECS Fargate, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
Building an Async Job Queue Worker in Go: Redis, Worker Pools, and Production Patterns
Background jobs in Go with Redis-backed queues, goroutine worker pools, graceful shutdown, and patterns that hold up in production.
Building a Production-Grade URL Shortener in Go
Designing a URL shortener in Go with Chi, PostgreSQL, Base62 short codes, multi-stage Docker builds, AWS ECS Fargate, and Prometheus metrics.
HashiCorp Vault on Kubernetes: Production Secret Management Done Right
Why Kubernetes Secrets fall short, how Vault fixes audit, rotation, and access control, and how agent sidecar injection works in practice.
Helm: Packaging Kubernetes Applications for Multiple Environments
Use Helm charts and values files so one app deploys cleanly to dev, staging, and prod without copy-pasted YAML.
GitOps with ArgoCD: How Real Teams Deploy to Kubernetes
Make Git the single source of truth for cluster state: no more kubectl apply from your laptop, with audit trails and drift correction.
Production Observability on Kubernetes: Prometheus, Grafana, and the Three Golden Signals
Instrument a Node.js app, deploy Prometheus and Grafana with Helm, and build dashboards around latency, traffic, and errors.
From Zero to Production: Building a Kubernetes CI/CD Pipeline from Scratch
Deploy a Node.js API to Kubernetes with GitHub Actions, rolling deployments, and zero downtime—the way teams do it in production.
Why Markdown for a personal blog
Plain files in git stay simple, portable, and easy to review.
Hello, blog
A quick hello from the new markdown-powered blog on this site.