Sushant Dhiman

I’ve been exploring databases in depth for some time, and now I’m planning to share what I’ve learned through a series of blog posts.

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Let’s say you are building distributed software that supports replication (such as a database).

Hi, I’m Sushant Dhiman.

A lot of engineers use load balancers every day.

Why Does Kafka Exist?

Most tutorials explain how to write a .proto file and call a gRPC method.

Most backend engineers know HTTP as a stateless request-response protocol.

Recently I was learning how Kafka works internally.

Recently I was exploring RabbitMQ and Kafka to do some POCs.

I wrote production systems for a startup using Java and Spring Boot for 1.5 years before switching to Go.

Hi, I hope you all are doing well.

Hi, I am on my way to becoming a better engineer.

Recently I was watching a GopherCon talk on YouTube that was published in 2016.

If you are following my blog, you might know that my plan for this year is to learn and program low-level systems.

This is the 4th episode of my series Behind The Screen, where I explain how the technology behind everyday products works, in the simplest way I can.

This is the 3rd episode of my series Behind The Screen, where I explain how the technology behind everyday products works, in the simplest way I can.

This is the 2nd episode of my series Behind The Screen, where I explain how the technology behind everyday products works, in the simplest way I can.

Email is a technology that you use every single day.

Hi, 2025 has come to an end.

Hi, I’ve been reading about Apache Cassandra for the past two weeks.

This weekend I was diving deep into concurrent programming.

Hey, everyone.

Hi, It’s been a long time since I wrote something in this newsletter.

Recently I’ve been learning about distributed systems and I came across a very interesting concept “Consistent Hashing”.

I made a configurable rate limiter.