Hi, I'm Rahul.
I build JavaScript systems that have to keep working when nobody is watching. This site is where I put the writing, notes, and tools that came out of that, mostly about the un-glamorous middle of software: connection pools, deploys, tracing, the bits that decide whether a Tuesday is quiet or not.
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The cost of a thousand pods
Horizontal scaling solves a lot of problems and creates one big one: every pod is a tiny machine with its own opinions about your database.
#scalability#postgres#kubernetes
9 minPostgres pooling in 2026
A pragmatic survey of where pooling lives now, whether in the driver, a sidecar, or the cloud, and which one to reach for first.
#postgres#infrastructure
7 minType-driven infrastructure, finally
SST and CDK pushed infra-as-code into TypeScript. The interesting part is what type inference does to the shape of a stack.
#devops#typescript#iac
6 min