August 2026 • 9 min read
Building a Centralized Exchange Engine from Scratch
I wanted to understand what actually happens after someone clicks “Buy” on an exchange, so I tried building one from scratch.
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Engineering notes, architecture breakdowns and lessons learned from building software.
July 2026 • 6 min read
Designing ColabCanvas: Building a Real-Time Collaborative Whiteboard
A walkthrough of the architecture behind ColabCanvas, covering WebSockets, persistence, synchronization, and the trade-offs of building real-time collaboration.
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June 2026 • 5 min read
A Small Cleanup Function Caused a Production Incident
Cleanup that ran after job processing let stale queue jobs send duplicate completion notifications to active customers.
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