Blogs

I built an anonymous auth system, broke it multiple times, and learned why identity isn’t something you can just remove.

A practical comparison of Redis Streams and Kafka through the lens of real engineering tradeoffs.

I was building an anonymous platform, so moderation wasn’t optional.

How I built real-time text moderation for an anonymous platform without freezing the browser or trusting the client.

Building a multi-layer moderation pipeline for an anonymous platform using rules, ML models, caching, and enforcement workflows.

Learned the hard way that Redis isn't the hard part—cache invalidation is. Lessons from building a real-world backend.

I was building an anonymous platform, so moderation wasn’t optional.