Designing Strata-Log: Architecture for a High-Throughput Distributed Log Engine
A technical look at the architecture behind Strata-Log, from raw TCP connections and worker pools to buffered storage and graceful shutdown.
A technical look at the architecture behind Strata-Log, from raw TCP connections and worker pools to buffered storage and graceful shutdown.
How I designed Flux-Gateway in Go to protect downstream services from traffic spikes, slow dependencies, and cascading failures.
How Flux-Gateway uses Redis Lua scripts to implement atomic traffic control across multiple gateway instances.
Why failing quickly can protect microservices from slow dependencies, connection timeouts, and cascading failures.
A practical look at implementing a concurrent circuit breaker in Go to prevent cascading failures in backend services.
The thinking behind building a portfolio that documents engineering work instead of simply displaying it.
The motivation, architecture, and engineering goals behind OpsPilot.
ikwukao
Backend • Distributed Systems • Platform Engineering
I design and build reliable backend systems, distributed platforms, cloud-native infrastructure, and developer tooling with Go, Python, Linux, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps practices.
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