Mohit Ranka

Introduction For the last couple of months, we have been working on building an open-source terminal-first AI IDE, Forge.

The line manager role is disappearing faster than most career plans assume.

“Near-real-time” is often used as a synonym for “we bought a streaming stack.”

At LinkedIn, the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) was meant to be the centralized way GTM teams managed and consumed datasets.

In 2013 I wrote RDBMS vs.

API latency SLOs changed how we run services.

Platform engineering managers do not run out of good ideas.

When people talk about identity and SSO, they reach for algorithms: token lifetimes, key rotation, SAML vs OIDC, session fixation.

At Postman, “put the product on the web” was not a greenfield rewrite.

When I was at Postman, the core product was already the default API client for a huge HTTP/HTTPS world — on the order of tens of millions of developers on desktop.

The most expensive design reviews I have run were not missing a box on a diagram.

At Postman, my team owned a large-scale platform surface used by millions of developers.

When a go-to-market dashboard is wrong, nobody says “the warehouse is eventually consistent.”

From our own experience designing and operating a highly available, highly scalable ecommerce platform, we have come to realize that relational databases should only be used when an application really needs the complex query, table join and transaction ca…