How to Use AI Effectively in Large Codebases

AI coding assistants are everywhere now.

Dec 12 • Ashish Pratap Singh

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Pub-Sub vs Message Queue vs Message Broker

What’s the difference?

Dec 10 • Ashish Pratap Singh

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Why You Should NEVER Start With Microservices

The hidden cost of premature optimization

Dec 8 • Ashish Pratap Singh

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November 2025

Linked List: Explained in 4 minutes

Linked List is one of the most fundamental data structures in computer science and a must-know topic for coding interviews.

Nov 16 • Ashish Pratap Singh

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Latency vs. Throughput vs. Bandwidth

Latency, throughput, and bandwidth are the core metrics that describe the performance of a network or distributed system.

Nov 13 • Ashish Pratap Singh

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Big-O Notation: Explained in 8 Minutes

Big O Notation is a way to measure how efficiently your code performs as the input size grows.

Nov 4 • Ashish Pratap Singh

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October 2025

Top 6 API Architecture Styles

An API defines how two systems communicate, what data can be shared, and in what format.

Oct 30 • Ashish Pratap Singh

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How to Securely Store Passwords in a Database

A password is meant to be secret. If someone steals it, they do not just break into one account, they often get access to every other place where the…

Oct 28 • Ashish Pratap Singh

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The secret architecture behind "username already taken"

When you try to sign up on a platform like Instagram and type in your username, the system almost instantly tells you whether it’s available or not. If…

Oct 1 • Ashish Pratap Singh

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September 2025

How Indexing Works in Distributed Databases

In a single-node database, indexing is relatively simple.

Sep 28 • Ashish Pratap Singh

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Clean Code Tips I Learned from Senior Engineers

Being good at coding and writing good code are two different skills.

Sep 17 • Ashish Pratap Singh

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How DNS Actually Works

When you type a website address into your browser, something almost magical happens.

Sep 11 • Ashish Pratap Singh

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